Bad Love an Alpha’s Regret by Elise Sinclair

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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

so long I’d

pulled

was

free and would no longer be forced to live in fear

constantly wondered what the point of

even was.

given up on

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

that

seemed like some cruel joke,

I just die

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haven’t thought about any of that–those darkest days–since

I’d returned home.

good

of being locked down in

would last and

passing, was something my brain refused to handle.

be no different as all

immediately overwhelming

hard, in the end he has

over his shoulder.

have no way to properly fight or

me is an

one of the smaller storerooms and

on the overhead

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like rice

detached part of my mind tells me that at least I

light this time

if I’ve already surrendered to the fact I am about

here.

No.

give

sets me down and then shoves me just enough

seconds catching my

sure I’m not about to fall

space, he’s darted out

door between us.

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

pounding on the door. “You

is Axel’s

and back onto

door some more, screaming my