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.

are concerned, the truth will mean a death sentence for

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into the smaller, informal dining

reading something

and not already taking care

I tell her as I start putting food

to the side of

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

cuts through me at

been so caught up in my own problems

been pulling my weight where the pack duties are

concerned.

to do better for my

did you sleep?” Jessica asks me as

I mutter into my breakfast, before pouring myself a

of

I’m sorry to hear that,” Jessica says with a frown. “Was it anything in particular keeping you

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

was planning to escape and go running

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can guess what’s coming next. She

wouldn’t have found myself in

him

leave, but he wouldn’t listen. He took

frame.”

demands

on my behalf.

to go

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

probably find those tactics perfectly acceptable considering the things

her.

Jessica asks in a quiet voice.

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

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wouldn’t disagree

I think these Alphas would do with being

Jessica says, leaning forward and saying the

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

a nice Beta–like my

in this world

my coffee cups against hers.

second, I think about pressing the

me convince

babysitter.