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.

it’d been

me so long

he’d pulled

I was going

I would be free and would no longer be

constantly wondered what the point

even was.

up on ever being

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

that I’d survived.

like some cruel joke, some terrible twist of fate.

I just die

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any

I’d returned home.

for good

that specific fear, of being locked down in

long it would last and no way

was passing, was something my brain refused to handle.

be no different as all those horrible feelings

back, immediately overwhelming me.

so hard, in the end he has to pick me up and fling me

over his shoulder.

his hold, I have no way to properly

me is

the smaller storerooms and Axel pauses

and flick on the overhead light.

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rice and

mind tells me that at least I

this time and won’t

to the fact I am about to be

here.

No.

give

shoves me just enough

precious seconds catching my

time I make sure I’m not about to

out of the

door between us.

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

on the

hear is

cellar and back

door some more,