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.

it’d been days.

left me so long I’d been delirious

he’d pulled me out.

thought I was

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

the point of

even was.

on

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treat me–Adam, I think his name had

furious that I’d

some cruel joke,

die and

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about any of that–those darkest days–since

I’d returned home.

good

memory of that specific fear, of being locked down in the dark

how long it would last and no way to tell how much

my brain

to be no different as all those

back, immediately overwhelming me.

in the end he has to pick me up

over his shoulder.

I have no way to

grip on me is

smaller storerooms

on the overhead

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basics like rice and other bulk provisions

part of my mind

this time

I’ve already surrendered to the fact I am about to

here.

No.

will not give in

then shoves me just

precious seconds catching my

about to fall on my ass

the small space, he’s darted out

door between us.

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

the

thing I hear is Axel’s footsteps retreating rapidly across

and back onto the stairs.

pound on the door some more,