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

left me so long I’d been delirious

pulled me

I was

would be free and would no longer be forced to live in

the point of my

even was.

given up on

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treat me–Adam, I think his name

that

seemed like some cruel joke, some terrible

just die and be at peace?

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about any of that–those darkest

I’d returned home.

good

fear, of being locked down in the dark

how long it would last

my brain refused to

proves to be no different as

back, immediately

hard, in the end he

over his shoulder.

in his hold, I have no

grip on me is an

smaller storerooms and Axel pauses to

flick on the overhead light.

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like rice and other bulk provisions stacked

detached part of my mind tells me that at

light this time and won’t

surrendered to the fact I am about to be locked

here.

No.

not give

me down and then shoves me

use precious seconds catching

about to fall on my ass and

he’s darted out of the

door between us.

Now!” I yell furiously, yanking at

and pounding on the door. “You

is Axel’s

and back onto the

some more, screaming my fury, hoping