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.

and I are concerned, the truth

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head into the smaller, informal dining room and

breakfast while reading something

hope you’re on social media and not already

I tell her as I start putting food on my plate from

side of the

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

guilt cuts

been so caught up in my own problems and

my weight where the

concerned.

do better for my best friend’s

asks me as I sit down

I mutter into my breakfast, before pouring

of

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

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 drink

escape and go running again.”

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She

had, I wouldn’t have found myself in

him yet again.

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

frame.”

what?” Jessica demands incredulously, clearly

on my behalf.

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

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

tactics perfectly acceptable considering the things I’d heard

her.

Jessica asks in

the point? Even if Aaron disagreed with Axel’s treatment of me, my brother is in Romania and there’s not

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disagree with Axel’s tactics

Alphas would do with being taken down

peg or two,” Jessica says, leaning forward and saying

if scared of being overheard. “I’m

Give me a nice

men in this world any longer.”

clinking my

a second, I think about pressing

get her to help me convince

babysitter.