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.

shift, Emily,” Axel tells me in a hard voice. “Control your wolf. Or I get

shallow breaths, resisting the

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completely chained down in silver would be worse than any

silver, they won’t burn you. But they are steel

into my feet and for a wild second, I

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 of

protest, he slaps the cuff onto one wrist and

me into motion again.

to figure out his intentions before we reach the

bed.

me up and tosses me onto

to click the other end of the

bedframe.

demand, not sure

Axel doesn’t answer.

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strips his

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how angry I am right now, despite how I think I might hate him in this moment, my mouth goes dry at the sight of

endless expanse

pants until he’s wearing nothing but

boxer briefs.

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

room into darkness.

he pads back across the space and then climbs onto the mattress, the blankets

I shout

sleep, Emily, and so do you,” he replies, his low voice in the darkness making me shiver,

going to sleep

you sleep or not. But

then consider the handcuffs

accessory.”

him roll over–presumably away from me–and

it has any right

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I whisper into the darkness.

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want to hurt him on purpose, I

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