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.

me so long I’d been delirious from dehydration

he’d pulled

thought I was

then I would be free and would

wondered what the point of my continued

even was.

on ever being

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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

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

I just die and be at peace?

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any of that–those

I’d returned home.

good reason.

specific fear, of being locked down in

how long it would last

was passing, was something my brain

no different as all those horrible feelings

immediately overwhelming me.

the end he has to pick

over his shoulder.

no way to properly

on me is

storerooms

on the overhead light.

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some basics like rice and other bulk

of my mind tells me that at least I

time and won’t

fact I am about to be locked in

here.

No.

will not give

sets me down and then shoves me just enough to force me

precious seconds catching my balance.

I’m not about to fall on my

the small space, he’s darted out of the room and

door between us.

Now!” I yell furiously,

pounding on the

only thing I hear is Axel’s footsteps

and back onto the

some more, screaming my fury,