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.

Axel and I are concerned, the truth will mean a death

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informal dining room

up breakfast while reading

media and not already taking care of pack.

I start putting food on my plate from the

the side

remember the last time I opened

wave of guilt cuts through

so caught up in my own problems and

my weight where

concerned.

better for my

me as I sit down at the table.

my breakfast,

of

to hear that,” Jessica says with a

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 get a

I was planning to escape and go

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as if she can guess what’s coming next. She probably assumes Axel

had, I wouldn’t have found

with him yet

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

frame.”

did what?” Jessica demands incredulously, clearly appalled

on my behalf.

I’m not even surprised at the lengths he’s willing to go to in order to

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

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

her.

tell him?” Jessica

nods. “What’s the point? Even if Aaron disagreed with Axel’s treatment of me, my

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disagree with Axel’s tactics anyway.”

think these Alphas would do

Jessica says, leaning forward and saying

being overheard. “I’m never

nice Beta–like my brother–any day. There

truly good men in

clinking my coffee

I think about pressing the issue.

can get her to help me

babysitter.