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

left me so long I’d

he’d pulled me out.

I was

then I would be free and would no longer

what the point

even was.

up on ever

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to treat me–Adam, I think his

that I’d

cruel joke, some terrible twist of fate.

I just die and

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thought about any of that–those

I’d returned home.

good reason.

fear, of being locked down in the dark

no idea how long it would last and no way to tell how much

was something my brain refused to

no different as

immediately overwhelming me.

in the end he has to pick me

over his shoulder.

I have no way

me is an inescapable vice.

smaller storerooms

flick on the overhead light.

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basics like rice and other

and some detached part of my mind tells me that at least I

time and won’t starve.

surrendered to the fact I am about to be locked in

here.

No.

will not give

shoves me just enough to force

precious seconds catching my balance.

not about to fall

darted out of the room

door between us.

out! Now!”

on the

is Axel’s

back onto the

on the door some more,