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

he’d pulled me

I was going to die.

for death, because then I would be free and would no longer be forced to live in fear or

point of my continued

even was.

given up on ever being

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the pack doctor to treat me–Adam, I think his name had been–I’d tried to refuse

that I’d survived.

some cruel joke, some terrible twist

just die

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haven’t thought about any

I’d returned home.

good reason.

of being locked down in the dark

last and

my brain refused to handle.

proves to be no different as all

immediately

the end he has to pick me up and fling me

over his shoulder.

I have no way to properly fight

grip on me is an inescapable vice.

smaller storerooms and Axel

and flick on the

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some basics like rice and other bulk provisions

mind tells me that at least I

light this time and won’t starve.

already surrendered to the fact I am about to

here.

No.

not give

me down and then shoves

precious seconds catching my

I’m not about to fall on my ass and

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

door between us.

Axel! Let me out! Now!”

the door. “You

hear is

cellar and back

pound on the door some more, screaming my