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 days.

long I’d been

pulled me out.

was going to die.

I’d prayed for death, because then I would be free and would no

what the point of my continued

even was.

on ever

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

that I’d survived.

some cruel joke, some terrible

die and

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haven’t thought about any of that–those

I’d returned home.

good

specific fear, of being locked down in the dark

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

my brain refused to

be no different as all those

back, immediately overwhelming me.

the end he has to pick me up and fling me

over his shoulder.

in his hold, I have no way

me is an

one of the smaller storerooms and Axel pauses

flick on the overhead

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some basics like rice and other bulk provisions stacked

of my mind tells me

time

I’ve already surrendered to the fact I am about to

here.

No.

not give in so

and then shoves

precious seconds catching

make sure I’m not about to fall on my

out of the room and

door between us.

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

and pounding on the

hear is Axel’s footsteps retreating rapidly across

back onto the stairs.

pound on the door some more, screaming my fury,