Bad Love an Alpha’s Regret by Elise Sinclair

Chapter 326

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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.

Jessica, but she’s with other pack members and I

to talk to her.

of Axel in

planning.

and Axel is lurking here and there, always watching me closely as if he’s

at any second

seems as long as I’m with Jessica, he mostly

I almost instinctively look to Axel for permission which just pisses me off

even more.

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did I start thinking I needed his

anything?

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to look over at

watch a movie.

some popcorn and grab some soda pop like when we

teenagers and head into the

leaves us be, but I’m sure he’s probably lurking in the hallway.

rom–com and we both cry and laugh and it feels like

ends, and Jessica says she’s heading to

I assume Axel is just waiting to lock me in my

to the corridor and while Jessica heads upstairs, I tell her I want a book

of the hall, Axel appears out

Lurking.

knew he would

going?” he demands like the prison warden he is.

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a book from the library,” I snap impatiently, stepping around

just trails

welcoming as it always is.

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chairs, cozy couches, a fire in the hearth burning

golden embers, and the pleasant

old books.

walking up and

I must have read