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

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the smaller, informal

breakfast while reading

on social media and not already taking

start putting food on

side of

can’t even remember the last time I opened any of those

of guilt cuts

up in my own problems and Axel, that I

really been pulling my weight

concerned.

for my

as I sit

mutter into my breakfast, before

of

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

trying not to remember the scary details of that dream. “But that wasn’t even the worst

I was planning to escape and go

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

wouldn’t have found myself

with him

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

frame.”

Jessica demands incredulously,

on my behalf.

point, I’m not even surprised at the lengths he’s willing to go to in order to uphold Aaron’s order to keep me

head. “That’s crossing a line. Anyone would

I mumble, thinking my brother would probably find those tactics perfectly acceptable considering the things I’d heard he’d

her.

him?” Jessica asks in a

with Axel’s treatment of me, my brother

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wouldn’t disagree

think these Alphas would do

peg or two,” Jessica says, leaning

of being overheard. “I’m never

a nice Beta–like my brother–any day.

in this world any

agree,” I say, clinking my coffee

a second, I think

help me convince Aaron I

babysitter.