Bad Love an Alpha’s Regret by Elise Sinclair

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“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.

dare shift, Emily,” Axel tells me in a hard

some shallow breaths, resisting the

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I have, and only because being completely chained down

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

and for a wild second, I think he somehow knows after

push the panic aside and try not

can protest, he slaps the

me into motion

to figure out his intentions before we reach

bed.

up and tosses me onto the

click the other

bedframe.

I demand, not sure whether I’m simply infuriated

Axel doesn’t answer.

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and strips his shirt off over his head.

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angry I am right now, despite how I think I might hate him in this moment, my

and that endless expanse

strips out of his pants until he’s wearing nothing but his

boxer briefs.

fact that I can lust after someone I loathe, Axel goes

room into darkness.

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

hell?” I shout

Emily, and so do you,” he replies, his low voice in

going to sleep like this?”

if you sleep or not. But if you keep

handcuffs your new

accessory.”

I hear him roll over–presumably away from

it has

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you,” I whisper into the

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he’s not even breathing, and for a second, I regret the words, because I don’t want to hurt him

he’s going to