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 days.

long I’d

pulled me

was going to die.

prayed for death, because then I would be free and would no

wondered what the point of my

even was.

given up on

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treat me–Adam, I think his name had been–I’d tried

furious that

seemed like some cruel joke, some terrible twist of fate.

I just die and be at peace?

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thought about any of that–those

I’d returned home.

for good reason.

that specific fear, of being locked down in the

idea how long it would last and no way to

was passing, was something my

proves to be no different as

immediately

Axel so hard, in the end he

over his shoulder.

no way to properly fight or escape.

is an

reach one of the smaller storerooms and Axel pauses

on

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are some basics like rice and other bulk provisions stacked

part of my mind tells me that at least I

time and won’t starve.

fact I am about to be locked in

here.

No.

will not give in so

and then shoves me

seconds catching my balance.

make sure I’m not about to

space, he’s darted out of the

door between us.

out! Now!” I yell

and pounding on the door. “You

thing I hear is Axel’s

back

more,