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.

he’d left me so long I’d been delirious

pulled

was going

death, because then I would be free and would no

the point of my

even was.

up on ever

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

furious that I’d

like some cruel joke, some terrible twist

couldn’t I just die and

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any of that–those darkest days–since

I’d returned home.

good reason.

that specific fear, of being locked down in the dark

last and

passing, was something my

be no different as

immediately overwhelming me.

the end he has to pick me up and fling me

over his shoulder.

hold, I have no way to properly fight

grip on me is an inescapable vice.

reach one of the smaller storerooms and Axel pauses to

door and flick on the overhead light.

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are some basics like rice and other bulk provisions

of my mind tells me that at least

time and won’t starve.

fact I am about to

here.

No.

not give

and then shoves me

seconds catching my balance.

make sure I’m not about to fall on

out of the room

door between us.

Now!” I yell furiously,

on the door. “You

hear is Axel’s footsteps retreating rapidly

back

pound on the door some more, screaming my fury, hoping