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

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into the smaller, informal dining room

breakfast while reading something

and not already taking

her as I start putting food

the side of the

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

of guilt cuts through me at her words.

caught up in my own problems

pulling my weight where the pack duties

concerned.

need to do better for my best friend’s sake.

sleep?” Jessica asks me as I sit down at the

mutter into my breakfast, before pouring

cup of

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

that wasn’t even the worst part. After, I went down to the kitchen to

planning to escape and

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

have

him yet

he wouldn’t listen. He took me upstairs to his room and

frame.”

what?” Jessica demands incredulously,

on my behalf.

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

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

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

her.

to tell him?” Jessica asks

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 there’s not much he

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wouldn’t disagree

Alphas would do with being

Jessica says, leaning forward and

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

a nice Beta–like my brother–any day.

men in this

my coffee

think about pressing

I can get her to help me convince Aaron I

babysitter.