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

I was going to die.

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

constantly wondered what the point of my continued existence

even was.

given up on

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

that I’d

some cruel joke, some terrible

I just die and be

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about any of that–those darkest

I’d returned home.

for good reason.

of

it would last and no way to tell how much

my brain refused

proves to be no different as all

back, immediately overwhelming me.

in the end he has to pick me up and

over his shoulder.

in his hold, I have no

grip on me is an

of the smaller storerooms and Axel pauses to

on the overhead light.

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basics like rice and other

some detached part of my mind tells me

light this time and

to the fact I

here.

No.

not give

sets me down and then shoves me just

use precious seconds catching

time I make sure I’m not about to

out of

door between us.

it, Axel! Let me out! Now!”

and pounding on the door.

only thing I hear is Axel’s footsteps retreating rapidly

cellar and back onto the

some more, screaming my fury, hoping the