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.

truth will mean

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into the smaller, informal dining room and find

reading something on a tablet.

on social media and not already taking care

her as I start putting food on my plate from

the side of the

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

guilt cuts through me

in my own problems and Axel,

really been pulling my weight where the pack

concerned.

need to do better for

sleep?” Jessica asks me as I sit down

mutter into my breakfast, before pouring

of coffee.

Jessica says with a frown. “Was it

a nightmare,” 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 escape and

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what’s coming next. She probably assumes Axel simply locked me in

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

him yet

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

frame.”

what?” Jessica demands incredulously, clearly

on my behalf.

he’s willing to go to

that,” Jessica says, shaking her head. “That’s crossing a line.

probably find those tactics perfectly acceptable considering the things I’d

her.

you going to tell him?” Jessica

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

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sure Aaron wouldn’t disagree with Axel’s tactics

I think these Alphas would do with being taken down

peg or two,” Jessica says, leaning forward and saying the words

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

Alpha. Give me a nice Beta–like my

good men in this world any longer.”

clinking my coffee cups

I think about pressing the issue.

help me convince

babysitter.