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.

left me so long

pulled me out.

thought I was going

because then I would be free and

wondered what the point of my continued existence

even was.

given up on ever

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think his name had been–I’d tried to refuse treatment

furious that I’d

like some cruel joke, some terrible twist of fate.

just die and

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thought about any

I’d returned home.

good

of that specific fear, of

how long it would last and no way

my brain refused

no different as all those horrible feelings come

back, immediately overwhelming me.

in the end he has to pick me

over his shoulder.

I have no way

me is an inescapable vice.

storerooms and Axel pauses to

flick on the

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rice and other bulk

of my mind tells me that at least I

time and won’t

to the fact

here.

No.

give in

shoves me just enough

seconds catching my

make sure I’m not about to fall on

small space, he’s darted out of the room and slams

door between us.

it, Axel! Let me out! Now!” I yell furiously, yanking at

on the door. “You bastard!”

hear is Axel’s footsteps retreating

back onto the

the door some more, screaming my fury, hoping