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

long

pulled me out.

was going to die.

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

constantly wondered what the point of my

even was.

up on ever being free.

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doctor to treat me–Adam, I think his name

that I’d

like some cruel joke, some

I just die and be at

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thought about any of that–those

I’d returned home.

good reason.

specific fear, of being locked down in

it would last and no way to tell

was passing, was something my

be no different as

immediately overwhelming

hard, in the end he has to pick me

over his shoulder.

no

on me is an inescapable vice.

smaller storerooms

and flick on

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rice and other

and some detached part of my mind

time

already surrendered to the fact I am about to be locked in

here.

No.

not give in so easily.

and then shoves me just enough

precious seconds

the time I make sure I’m not about

space, he’s darted out

door between us.

Let me out! Now!” I yell furiously, yanking at

on the door. “You

thing I hear is Axel’s footsteps

back

some more,