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.

concerned, the truth will mean a death sentence

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into the smaller, informal

breakfast while reading something on a

hope you’re on social media and not already taking

I start putting food

the side of the

the last

wave of guilt cuts through me at her

up in my own problems and Axel,

been pulling my weight where the pack

concerned.

for my

me as I sit down at the table.

breakfast, before pouring

of coffee.

with a frown. “Was it anything in particular

the scary details of that dream. “But that wasn’t even the worst part. After, I went down to the

was planning to escape and

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guess what’s coming next. She probably

only he had, I wouldn’t have found

with him

but he wouldn’t listen. He took me upstairs to his room and

frame.”

what?” Jessica demands

on my behalf.

not even surprised at the lengths he’s willing to go to in order to uphold

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

thinking my brother would probably find those tactics perfectly acceptable considering the things I’d heard he’d done to Leah before

her.

him?” Jessica asks

Even if Aaron disagreed with Axel’s treatment of me, my brother is in Romania and there’s not much he

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wouldn’t disagree with

Alphas would do with being taken

leaning forward and

scared of being overheard.

Alpha. Give me a nice Beta–like

truly good men in this world any longer.”

my coffee

second, I think about

help me convince

babysitter.