Bad Love an Alpha’s Regret by Elise Sinclair

Chapter 328

“Axel, no!” I cry out as he starts dragging me from the kitchen. “Please, I wasn’t going to run, I promise.”

Axel scoffs and tightens his hold on me.

“Like I haven’t heard that before. How many times have you told me you wouldn’t shift and run, only to do exactly that a few hours later?”

“Please, let me go,” I beg, and I can’t even find any shame that I’m pleading desperately with him.

Not with the nightmare lingering in my mind, making it hard for my thoughts and emotions to differentiate reality from dream.

I don’t care if I’m reduced to begging.

I don’t care if he thinks I’m pathetic.

The only thing I care about right now is getting away from him and not getting locked in my room when I’m feeling so raw and

vulnerable.

But Axel barely pays any attention to me.

Instead, he drags me upstairs.

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However, when we get there, I’m momentarily confused, because he doesn’t take me into my room. He takes me across the hall into the bedroom Aaron gave him to use when he became my glorified babysitter.

Axel slams the door and then goes over to the dresser, tugging me along.

“What’s going on? What are you doing?” I demand, my voice tight with anger.

He doesn’t answer as he digs through a drawer of weapons and

other things I can’t even identify.

Eventually he pulls something out and turns to me.

“No!” I scream furiously, doubling my efforts to escape him as I

see the pair of silver handcuffs he’s holding.

My wolf starts pushing up, trying to force the shift to protect me.

The first few years I was captive of the old Roberts Alpha, he kept me in silver handcuffs, keeping my wrists continuously raw,

blistered and painful.

me in a hard voice. “Control your wolf. Or

desperately suck in some shallow breaths, resisting the

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scrap of control I have, and only because being completely chained down in silver would be worse than

says after a long minute. “These aren’t silver, they won’t burn you. But they are steel reinforced tungsten cuffs,

a wild second, I

he continues while I push the panic aside and try not to pass out from hyperventilating

can protest, he slaps the

me into motion

his intentions before we

bed.

me up and tosses me

other end of the cuffs to the

bedframe.

serious?” I demand, not sure whether I’m

Axel doesn’t answer.

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strips his shirt off over his head.

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right now, despite how I think I might hate him in

that endless expanse of

his pants

boxer briefs.

myself over the fact that I can lust after someone I loathe, Axel goes and turns off the light, plunging

room into darkness.

climbs onto the

hell?” I shout

he replies, his low voice in the darkness making

going to sleep like this?”

don’t care if you sleep or not. But if you keep me

then consider the handcuffs

accessory.”

him roll over–presumably away

has any

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I whisper into the darkness.

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I don’t want to hurt him on purpose,

he’s going to say anything, but he stays silent and