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

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into the smaller, informal dining room and find

breakfast while reading

you’re on social media and not already

I tell her as I start putting food on my plate from

the side of the room.

even remember the last time

guilt cuts through me

up in my own problems and Axel, that

pulling my weight

concerned.

need to do better for my

asks me as I sit down at

I mutter into my breakfast, before pouring

cup of coffee.

sorry to hear that,” Jessica says with a frown.

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

I was planning to escape and go running

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coming next. She probably assumes Axel simply locked me in

I wouldn’t have found myself in an impossible

him

listen. He took me upstairs

frame.”

what?” Jessica demands

on my behalf.

the lengths he’s willing to go to in order to uphold Aaron’s order

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

probably find those tactics perfectly acceptable considering the things I’d heard he’d done to

her.

you going to tell him?” Jessica asks in a

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

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

think these Alphas would do with

Jessica says, leaning forward and saying the

overheard.

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

enough truly good men in this world any longer.”

my coffee cups against hers.

a second, I think

me

babysitter.