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.

he’d left me so long I’d

pulled me out.

thought I was

be free and

wondered what the point

even was.

given up on

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

that

seemed like some cruel joke, some

die and be at peace?

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haven’t thought about any of

I’d returned home.

good reason.

that specific fear, of being locked down in the dark

last and no way

passing, was something my brain

as all

immediately overwhelming me.

hard, in the end he has to pick me

over his shoulder.

have no way to properly fight or

me is

smaller storerooms and Axel pauses

flick on the overhead light.

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some basics like rice and

some detached part of my mind tells me that

this time and

to the fact I

here.

No.

give in so easily.

sets me down and then shoves me just

precious seconds

make sure I’m not about to fall on my ass and

darted out of the room and slams the

door between us.

Axel! Let me out! Now!”

on the

thing I hear is Axel’s

cellar and back onto the stairs.

door some more, screaming