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

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into the smaller, informal

reading something on a

on social media and not

I tell her as I start putting food on my

to the side of the

forlornly. “I can’t even remember the last

wave of guilt cuts through me

up in my

pulling my weight

concerned.

need to do better for my

did you sleep?” Jessica asks me as I sit

mutter into my breakfast, before pouring myself

of

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

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 of water

escape and go running again.”

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next. She probably assumes Axel simply locked me in

wouldn’t have found myself in an impossible

with him yet again.

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

frame.”

demands incredulously,

on my behalf.

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

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

probably find those tactics perfectly acceptable considering the things I’d heard

her.

you going to tell him?” Jessica

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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Aaron wouldn’t disagree with Axel’s tactics

would do with being taken down

Jessica says, leaning forward

as if scared of being overheard.

nice

in this

my coffee cups against

second, I think about pressing the

help me convince

babysitter.