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.

Chapter 336

2/6

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

pulled me out.

thought I was going

death, because then I would be free and

the point

even was.

on

Chapter 336

I think his name had

furious that I’d survived.

cruel joke, some terrible twist of

I just die and be

3/6

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

I’d returned home.

good

specific fear, of being locked

last

my brain refused to handle.

different as all those

immediately overwhelming me.

end he has to pick me up and fling

over his shoulder.

his hold, I have no way to properly fight or escape.

on me is an

storerooms and Axel pauses to open

door and flick on the

Chapter 336

4/6

like rice and

detached part of my mind tells me that

this time

I’ve already surrendered to the fact I am

here.

No.

give in so easily.

me down and then shoves me just enough to force

precious seconds catching

about to fall on

he’s darted out of the room and slams

door between us.

Now!” I yell furiously,

pounding on the door. “You

only thing I hear is

and back onto the stairs.

door some more, screaming my fury, hoping