Bad Love an Alpha’s Regret by Elise Sinclair

Chapter 336

Axel drags me back to the mansion, which is the last place I want to go right now, but it’s not like I’ve got much of a choice.

I assume he’s going to lock me into my room again.

What else is he going to do with me when it’s the middle of the day and he’s got pack business to attend to as acting Alpha on behalf of my brother?

However, when we go inside the mansion, he doesn’t take me

upstairs.

Instead, he opens the door that goes down to the

basement–slash–cellar.

As soon as he opens that door, all common sense leaves me as

pure panic takes over.

I turn to run, but Axel wraps his arms around my waist.

I haven’t been down to the cellar since I returned to the Rathborn

mansion.

It’s mostly used to store stuff, as well as an extensive and

expensive collection of wine, but I’ve always managed to find

someone else to go down for me if I’ve needed anything.

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I think Jessica has figured out I’m avoiding it on purpose, but no

one else has.

At the house I spent ten years locked away in, there was a small

storm cellar beneath the kitchen.

When the old Roberts Alpha really wanted to punish me–whether I had done something to annoy him, or he was just having a bad day, or he’d gotten some news about Leah that he didn’t like–he

would throw me down in that storm cellar with no light or lamp, no

blankets, no food, no water.

Sometimes it would just be for a few hours.

been

he’d left me so long I’d

he’d pulled me out.

was going

I’d prayed for death, because then I would be free and would no longer be forced to

constantly wondered what the point of my continued

even was.

given up on ever

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to treat me–Adam, I think his name had been–I’d

that I’d

seemed like some cruel joke,

couldn’t I just die

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any of that–those darkest

I’d returned home.

good reason.

fear, of being locked down in the

long it would last and no

was something my brain refused to handle.

no different as all those

immediately overwhelming

in the end he has

over his shoulder.

his hold, I have no

me is an inescapable vice.

one of the smaller storerooms and Axel

door and flick on the

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some basics like rice and other bulk provisions stacked

of my mind tells me

this time and won’t

I’ve already surrendered to the fact I

here.

No.

not give in so easily.

and then shoves me just enough

precious seconds

the time I make sure I’m not about

space, he’s darted out of the room and slams the

door between us.

me out! Now!” I yell furiously, yanking at the

on the door.

hear is Axel’s

cellar and back onto the stairs.

on the door some more, screaming my fury,