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

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the smaller, informal

up breakfast while reading something on a tablet.

hope you’re on social media and not already taking care of

I tell her as I start putting food on

side of

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

of guilt cuts through me at

been so caught up in my own problems

pulling my weight where the pack duties

concerned.

better for my best friend’s sake.

did you sleep?” Jessica asks me as I

into my breakfast, before pouring myself

cup of

to hear that,” Jessica says with a frown. “Was

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

planning to escape

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frowns, as if she can guess what’s coming next. She probably

I wouldn’t have found myself in

him yet

tell him I wasn’t planning to leave, but he wouldn’t listen. He took me upstairs

frame.”

what?” Jessica demands incredulously,

on my behalf.

the lengths he’s willing to go to in order to uphold Aaron’s order to keep me in line.”

“That’s crossing a line. Anyone

mumble, thinking my brother would probably find those tactics perfectly acceptable considering the things I’d heard he’d done to Leah before he’d fallen in

her.

to tell him?” Jessica asks in a quiet

of me, my brother is

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

think these Alphas would

or two,” Jessica says, leaning forward

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

Give me a nice

good men in this

say, clinking my coffee

think about pressing

me

babysitter.