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.

long I’d been delirious

he’d pulled me out.

was going to die.

would be free and

what the point of my

even was.

up on ever

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

that I’d survived.

seemed like some cruel joke, some terrible twist of fate.

couldn’t I just die and

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haven’t thought about any of that–those darkest

I’d returned home.

good reason.

that specific fear, of

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

my brain refused to handle.

as all those horrible feelings

back, immediately

he has to pick

over his shoulder.

in his hold, I have no way

is

the smaller storerooms and

door and flick on

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rice and other bulk provisions stacked

mind tells me

time

the fact I am about to be locked

here.

No.

not give in

and then shoves me just enough to force me

precious seconds catching my

make sure I’m not about to

darted out of the room and slams the

door between us.

out! Now!” I yell furiously, yanking

on the door. “You

is Axel’s footsteps retreating

and back onto

the door some more, screaming my