Bad Love an Alpha’s Regret by Elise Sinclair

Chapter 330

EMILY

I don’t go right downstairs for breakfast. I go across the hall to my

own room and into my own bathroom so I can shower Axel’s scent

and the smell of lust off my skin.

I can’t believe I forgot for even a second that I was handcuffed to

that bastard’s bed.

I can’t believe I actually fell asleep, let alone cuddled up to him.

And when I woke up in his arms, was my first reaction disgust or loathing as it should have been?

No, my wolf and my desires had betrayed me, leaving me not only susceptible to his seductions, but returning them with

desperation.

Ugh!

I’m so disgusted with myself, I can barely look in the mirror.

I stand under the shower spray for a ridiculously long time.

Anywhere else, the hot water would have run out ages ago, but the mansion’s supply of hot water is basically endless, so all l

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manage to do is end up with wrinkly prune fingers and climb out

feeling like a wet dog, all bedraggled and miserable.

I dress and then head downstairs, glad to hear from the chattering housekeepers that Axel has already left the mansion.

Except then I hear someone say something about vampires seen lurking at the Southern edges of Rathborn territory, and I worry for the pack, especially with Aaron gone.

What if the vampires try something because they know we’re without our Alpha?

But then I remember how Axel is actually Axiel Mercier, Slayer, and I hate that I immediately feel safer.

Damn it!

Axel shouldn’t make me feel safe.

I should be terrified of him.

I am terrified of him, and I need to remember how I maybe need to escape before he finds out the truth of what happened to me when the old Roberts Alpha performed all those twisted

experiments on me.

Axel and I are concerned, the truth will mean a death sentence for me.

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informal dining room and find Jessica

breakfast while reading something on

you’re on social media and not already

I start putting food on my plate from the

to the side of the room.

sighs forlornly. “I can’t even remember the

of guilt cuts through me at her

my

pulling my weight where the

concerned.

need to do better for my

you sleep?” Jessica asks me as I sit down at the table.

my breakfast, before

cup of coffee.

hear that,” Jessica says with a

that wasn’t even the worst part. After, I

to escape and go running again.”

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if she can guess what’s coming next. She probably assumes Axel simply locked me in my room again.

I wouldn’t have

with him yet

wouldn’t listen. He took me upstairs to

frame.”

what?” Jessica demands

on my behalf.

to go to in

head. “That’s crossing a line. Anyone would be able to see that.”

my brother would probably find those tactics perfectly acceptable considering the things

her.

you going to tell him?” Jessica asks in a quiet

with Axel’s treatment of me, my brother is in Romania and there’s not much he can do from there. Besides, I’m

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wouldn’t disagree with Axel’s

Alphas would do with being taken

or two,” Jessica says, leaning forward and saying the

as if scared of being overheard. “I’m never

a nice

men in

agree,” I say, clinking my coffee cups against

I think about

get her to help me convince Aaron

babysitter.