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.

I are concerned, the truth will mean a death sentence for

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the smaller, informal

while reading something on a

on social media and not already taking care of pack.

start putting food on

to the side of

Jessica sighs forlornly. “I can’t even remember the last time I

of guilt cuts through me at her words.

so caught up in my own problems

my weight where the pack duties

concerned.

do better for my

me as I sit

I mutter into my breakfast, before

cup of coffee.

to hear that,” Jessica says with a frown. “Was it anything in particular keeping you awake?”

I tell her, 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 get a drink of water

was planning to escape and go

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next. She probably assumes Axel simply locked me in my

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

with him

wasn’t planning to leave, but he wouldn’t listen. He took me upstairs to his room and handcuffed me to the

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 line.”

you like that,” Jessica says, shaking her head. “That’s crossing a line. Anyone would be able to see

perfectly acceptable considering the things I’d heard he’d done to Leah before

her.

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

Aaron disagreed with Axel’s treatment of me, my brother is in Romania

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

Alphas would do with

or two,” Jessica says, leaning

being overheard. “I’m never

nice Beta–like my brother–any day.

enough truly good men in this world any

say, clinking my coffee cups

think

can get her to help me convince

babysitter.