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

he’d left me so long I’d been delirious from

he’d pulled me out.

I was going

because then I would be free and would no longer be forced to live

point

even was.

given up on ever being free.

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had brought the pack doctor to treat me–Adam, I think his name

furious that

seemed like some cruel joke, some terrible twist of

die and be

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any of that–those

I’d returned home.

for good

that specific fear, of being locked down in the dark

how long it would last and no way

my

different as

back, immediately overwhelming

in the end he has to pick me

over his shoulder.

I have no way to properly

grip on me is an inescapable vice.

storerooms and Axel pauses to

door and flick on the

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rice

my mind tells me that at least

time

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

here.

No.

not give in

me down and then shoves me

precious seconds catching

I’m not about to fall on my

small space, he’s darted out of the

door between us.

Let me out! Now!”

and pounding on the door. “You bastard!”

thing I hear is Axel’s footsteps retreating

cellar and back onto

on the door some more, screaming