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.

where Axel and I are concerned, the truth will mean a

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smaller, informal

up breakfast while reading something

hope you’re on social media and

start putting food on my plate from

to the side

Jessica sighs forlornly. “I can’t even remember the last time I opened any of those apps.”

sharp wave of guilt cuts through me at

my own problems and Axel,

pulling my weight

concerned.

to do better for my best friend’s

Jessica asks me as I sit

mutter into my breakfast, before pouring myself a

of coffee.

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

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

planning to escape and go running again.”

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what’s coming next. She probably assumes Axel simply

he had, I wouldn’t have found myself in an

with him yet

him I wasn’t planning to leave, but he wouldn’t listen. He took

frame.”

Jessica demands incredulously,

on my behalf.

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

her head. “That’s crossing

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

her.

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

point? Even if Aaron disagreed with Axel’s treatment of me, my

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wouldn’t disagree with Axel’s tactics anyway.”

these Alphas would

says, leaning forward and

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

nice Beta–like my brother–any day.

enough truly good men in this world any longer.”

say, clinking my coffee cups against hers.

think about pressing

I can get her to help me convince

babysitter.