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.

the truth will mean a death sentence

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informal dining

up breakfast while reading something on a tablet.

social media and not already taking care of pack.

I tell her as I start putting food on

to the side

can’t even remember the last time I

of guilt cuts through me

my

weight where the

concerned.

better for my

Jessica asks me as I sit

mutter into my breakfast, before pouring myself a

cup of

to hear that,” Jessica says with a frown. “Was it

that dream. “But that wasn’t even the worst part. After, I went down to the kitchen to get a drink of water

was planning to escape and

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coming next. She probably assumes Axel simply locked me

only he had, I wouldn’t have

him

but he wouldn’t listen. He took me

frame.”

Jessica demands incredulously,

on my behalf.

this point, I’m not even surprised at the lengths he’s willing to go to in order to

head. “That’s crossing a line. Anyone would

perfectly acceptable considering the

her.

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

I clarify, before Jessica nods. “What’s the point? Even if Aaron disagreed with Axel’s treatment of me, my brother is in Romania and there’s not much he can do

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wouldn’t disagree with Axel’s

would do with being

Jessica says, leaning

scared of being overheard. “I’m never going to mate

Give me a nice Beta–like my brother–any day.

truly good men in this world

I say, clinking my

second, I think about pressing

get her to help me convince Aaron

babysitter.