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

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into the smaller, informal dining room and

reading something on a tablet.

and not already taking care of pack.

her as I start putting food on my plate

the side of the room.

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

cuts through me at her words.

my own problems and

been pulling my weight where

concerned.

do better for my

sleep?” Jessica asks me as I sit

I mutter into my breakfast, before

of coffee.

says with a frown.

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

planning to escape and

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if she can guess what’s coming next. She probably assumes Axel simply locked me in

had, I wouldn’t have found myself in an

with him yet again.

to leave, but he wouldn’t listen. He took me upstairs to his room and handcuffed me to

frame.”

Jessica demands incredulously,

on my behalf.

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

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

considering the things

her.

him?” Jessica asks in a quiet

me,

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wouldn’t disagree with Axel’s tactics

these Alphas would

or two,” Jessica says, leaning forward and saying the words

being overheard.

me a nice Beta–like

enough truly good men in this world any longer.”

I say, clinking my coffee cups against

I think about pressing

I can get her to help me convince Aaron I don’t

babysitter.