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.

desperately suck in some shallow breaths, resisting the shift

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only because being completely

he says after a long minute. “These aren’t silver, they won’t burn you. But they are steel reinforced tungsten cuffs, which makes them harder to break. They’re designed

feet and for a wild second, I think he

can snap free of them,” he continues while I push the panic aside and try not to pass out from hyperventilating while rage seethes through me like a living creature

he slaps the cuff onto one

me into

out his intentions before

bed.

practically picks me up and tosses

over to click the other

bedframe.

I demand, not sure whether I’m simply

Axel doesn’t answer.

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steps back and strips his shirt

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I might hate him in this moment, my mouth goes dry at the sight of his

that endless expanse

out of his pants until he’s wearing nothing

boxer briefs.

that I can lust after someone I loathe, Axel goes and turns

room into darkness.

listen as he pads back across the space and then climbs onto the

the hell?” I

and so do you,” he replies, his low voice in the darkness making

to sleep like this?”

or not. But if

handcuffs

accessory.”

hear him roll over–presumably away from me–and

it has any right to.

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I whisper

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don’t want to hurt

to see if he’s going to say anything, but