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.

so long I’d been

he’d pulled me out.

I was going to

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

wondered what the point of my

even was.

up on ever being free.

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

furious that I’d survived.

some cruel joke,

just die and be at peace?

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thought about any of

I’d returned home.

good reason.

fear, of being locked

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

something my brain refused

no different as all

immediately overwhelming me.

he has to pick

over his shoulder.

his hold, I have no way

me is an

one of the smaller storerooms and Axel pauses

and flick on

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basics like rice and

my mind tells me that at least I

time and

I’ve already surrendered to the fact I

here.

No.

will not give in

then shoves me just enough

use precious seconds catching

not about to

darted out of the

door between us.

Axel! Let me out! Now!” I

the door.

thing I hear is Axel’s footsteps retreating rapidly across

and back

more, screaming my fury,