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 will mean

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smaller, informal dining room and find

breakfast while reading something on a

on social media and not

as I start putting food on my plate

side of the

business,” Jessica sighs forlornly. “I can’t even remember the last time I

cuts through me at her

been so caught up in my own problems and Axel, that I

really been pulling my weight

concerned.

for my

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

I mutter into my breakfast, before pouring myself

of coffee.

says with a frown. “Was it anything

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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can guess what’s coming next. She probably assumes

wouldn’t have found myself in an

him yet again.

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

frame.”

Jessica demands incredulously, clearly appalled

on my behalf.

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

head. “That’s crossing a line.

acceptable considering the things I’d heard

her.

going to tell him?” Jessica asks in a

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 can do

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sure Aaron wouldn’t disagree

these Alphas would

Jessica says, leaning forward and saying the words

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

a nice Beta–like my

in this world any

I say, clinking my coffee cups

a second, I think about pressing the

get her to help me convince Aaron I

babysitter.