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

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informal dining

reading something on

you’re on social media and

her as I start putting food

side

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

of guilt cuts through me at her

so caught up in my own problems and Axel,

really been pulling my weight

concerned.

to do better for my best friend’s sake.

as I sit down at

my breakfast, before pouring myself a

cup of

says with a frown. “Was it anything in particular keeping

nightmare,” I tell her, trying not to remember the scary details of that dream. “But that wasn’t even the worst part. After, I went down to

escape

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She probably assumes Axel simply locked me in

had, I wouldn’t have

with him yet again.

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

frame.”

Jessica demands incredulously, clearly

on my behalf.

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

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

perfectly acceptable considering the things I’d heard he’d done to Leah before he’d fallen

her.

going to tell him?” Jessica asks in a quiet voice.

nods. “What’s the point? Even if Aaron disagreed with Axel’s treatment of me, my brother is in Romania and there’s

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sure Aaron wouldn’t disagree

I think these Alphas would do

says, leaning forward and saying the words

scared of being overheard. “I’m never going to

a nice Beta–like my brother–any

in this

say, clinking my

a second, I think about pressing

her to help me convince Aaron I

babysitter.