Bad Love an Alpha’s Regret by Elise Sinclair

Chapter 326

EMILY

I don’t bother asking Axel what his punishment will be if I disobey

him and leave the house.

Instead, I turn on my heel and walk out on him, going to find

wherever Jessica ran off to.

I half expect Axel to follow me, but he doesn’t, and I don’t know if I’m relieved or annoyed.

No, I tell myself firmly. I’m definitely relieved.

But even I’m not buying my own lie.

When Axel had pulled me up against him just now in the office, for a second, I’d thought he was going to kiss me, maybe do even

more than that.

My body had all but melted like ice cream on hot pavement.

I wanted him.

Even worse now that I knew what it was like to come apart in his

arms.

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But I hated myself for that.

Did I have no self–respect?

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The man has made no secret about his negative feelings toward

1. me.

Yet my body and my instincts–most especially my wolf–want me to surrender to him every time he turns that heavy gaze my

way.

with other pack members and I

to talk to

I might present the idea of getting rid of Axel in

planning.

watching me closely as if he’s expecting me to just

any second now.

as I’m with Jessica, he mostly leaves me alone.

watch a movie, and I almost instinctively

even more.

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when did I start thinking I

anything?

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I resist the urge to look over at

watch a movie.

grab some soda pop like

and head into the mansion’s

us be, but I’m sure

rom–com and we both cry and laugh and it feels like old times…exactly

and Jessica says she’s heading

I assume Axel is just waiting to lock me in my room

walk out to the corridor and while Jessica heads upstairs, I tell her I

hall, Axel

Lurking.

like I knew he would be.

like the

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a book

reply, just trails me into the library.

the room is as welcoming as it always

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couches, a fire

red and golden embers, and the pleasant smell

old

time walking up and

Emily Dickenson I must have read a hundred times when I was younger.