Bad Love an Alpha’s Regret by Elise Sinclair

Chapter 323

EMILY

For a second, I lay there, dazed and confused.

I’ve never experienced anything like what just happened between me and Axel.

But I’d barely come down from the impossible high when he got up and walked out, leaving me here feeling used and unwanted.

The cold air registers on my cooling skin and I shiver, quickly dragging my clothes over to dress myself before someone can walk in here and see me like this.

I thought what was happening between me and Axel was something special, something amazing.

That just maybe, somehow, we could get past all the things between us and become mated after

all.

Except I can see now how lust clouded my mind and impaired my judgement.

I feel shame and embarrassment storm through me.

I can’t believe how I let myself lose control like that. With a man who barely tolerates me and would kill me the second he discovered the truth of what I’d become after the horrible experiments the old Roberts Alpha and his son Liam conducted on me.

Axel had said I was required to begin my training again.

I don’t completely disagree with him on that idea. I’d like to sharpen my skills once again, and the idea of training everyday-having some structure and routine, as well as something to look forward to-it’s actually very appealing to me.

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I only wish I’d thought of it myself.

Now, Axel and Aaron will probably take the credit for any improvements training might bring me.

I’m going to do it, but I’m doing it for me, not them and not the pack.

want to start

Not after

feel raw and disgraced.

to his feet, I could see the cold disgust swiftly returning to his features, but now

even worse.

regrets what happened between us, and I can only wonder how much worse his treatment of me is going to be.

something so stupid like

a kiss to distract him.

grew up around wolves,

wolf can get

have rejected me, but his instincts would still be pushing me

should’ve known getting so close to him-trying to trick him so I could win the

curious gazes of other pack members I pass here

I manage to slip away so I can

my mind go quiet and my instincts take

I run and

not

es justo, Que

or I’m starting to tire.

that

muscles

y quiero

lands behind me, and I’m coming up on the same

and then shift back, walking quietly through the

before I emerge through the woods onto a small clearing next to

in his lap and various pencils and other art stuff spread

a twig underfoot, and he turns his

and his eyes light up as soon

my chest as I try to remember the last time someone actually looked happy to see me.

in front of him. “I was wondering if I’d see you again.”

over and stand at the edge of the picnic blanket.

you, if that’s what you think,” I reply sharply, but