Bad Love an Alpha’s Regret by Elise Sinclair

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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.

pack members and I don’t get a

talk to her.

what I would say to her anyway, how I might present the idea of getting rid of Axel in a way where she might help me instead

planning.

comes and goes, and Axel is lurking here and there, always watching me closely as if he’s expecting me to just get up and

any

as long as I’m with Jessica, he mostly leaves me

if I want to watch a movie, and I almost instinctively look to Axel for permission which

even more.

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did I start thinking I needed his approval to do

anything?

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look over at him and tell Jessica I’d

watch a movie.

popcorn and grab some soda pop like when we

into the

us be, but I’m sure he’s probably lurking in

a rom–com and we both cry and laugh and it feels like old times…exactly what I needed.

and Jessica says she’s heading to bed.

to go to bed, because I assume Axel is just waiting to lock me in my room again.

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

end of the hall, Axel appears out of the shadows.

Lurking.

knew

he demands like the prison warden

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get a book from the

trails me

the room is as welcoming as it always is.

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cozy couches, a fire in the hearth burning

golden embers, and the

old

up and down the

poetry by Emily Dickenson I must have read a