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.

me so long I’d been delirious from dehydration

he’d pulled me out.

was going to die.

because then I would be free and would no longer be forced to live in fear or captivity.

point of my

even was.

given up on ever being

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I think

that I’d

like some cruel joke, some

die and be at

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haven’t thought about any of that–those

I’d returned home.

good reason.

memory of that specific fear, of being locked down

idea how long it would last

passing, was something my brain refused

as all

immediately overwhelming me.

the end he has to pick me up and fling

over his shoulder.

have no way to properly

grip on me is an inescapable

of the smaller storerooms and

on the overhead light.

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some basics like rice

my mind tells me that

time and won’t

I’ve already surrendered to the fact I am

here.

No.

will not give in

then shoves me just

seconds catching my

time I make sure I’m not about to fall on my ass and rush

out of the room and slams

door between us.

it, Axel! Let me out! Now!” I yell

the door. “You bastard!”

I hear is Axel’s footsteps retreating rapidly across

back

some more,