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.

I are concerned, the truth will mean

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head into the smaller, informal dining

while reading

hope you’re on social media and not already taking care of pack.

her as I start putting food on my plate

side of the room.

Jessica sighs forlornly. “I can’t even remember the last

wave of guilt cuts through me

been so caught up in my own problems

weight where

concerned.

to do better for my best

asks me as

breakfast, before pouring myself

cup of coffee.

I’m sorry to hear that,” Jessica says with a frown. “Was it anything in particular keeping you

“But that wasn’t even the worst part. After, I went down to

escape and go running

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

only he had, I wouldn’t have found myself

with him yet

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

frame.”

Jessica demands incredulously, clearly

on my behalf.

the lengths he’s willing to go to in order to uphold

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

find those tactics perfectly acceptable considering

her.

to tell him?” Jessica

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

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Aaron wouldn’t disagree with

would do with being taken

leaning forward and saying the words

as if scared of being overheard. “I’m

nice Beta–like my

good men in

agree,” I say, clinking my coffee

think about pressing the issue.

get her to help me

babysitter.