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

long I’d been delirious from dehydration

pulled me

was going to die.

death, because then I would be free and would no longer be forced to live in fear or captivity.

constantly wondered what the point

even was.

up on ever being free.

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

that

like some cruel joke, some terrible twist of fate.

couldn’t I just die and be

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thought about any of that–those darkest

I’d returned home.

good

of that specific fear, of being locked down in

no idea how long it would last and no way

was something my brain

no different as

immediately overwhelming me.

the end he

over his shoulder.

in his hold, I have no way to properly fight or escape.

me is an

smaller storerooms and

and flick on

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are some basics like rice and other

mind

time

fact I am about to be

here.

No.

give in

shoves

use precious seconds

time I make sure I’m not about to fall on

the small space, he’s darted out of

door between us.

Axel! Let me out! Now!” I yell furiously,

the door. “You

hear is Axel’s footsteps retreating rapidly across

and back

more, screaming