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

pulled me out.

I was going to die.

free and would no longer be forced to

constantly wondered what the point of my

even was.

on ever being

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treat me–Adam, I think his name had been–I’d tried

furious that I’d survived.

some cruel joke, some terrible twist of fate.

just die

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any of that–those

I’d returned home.

for good reason.

that specific fear, of being locked down in

idea how long it would last and no way to tell

passing, was something my brain

be no different as all those horrible feelings come

back, immediately overwhelming

hard, in the end he

over his shoulder.

hold, I have no

is

storerooms and Axel pauses to open

door and flick on the overhead

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are some basics like rice and other bulk provisions

some detached part of my mind tells me

time and won’t starve.

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

here.

No.

not give in so

shoves me

use precious seconds catching my balance.

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

space, he’s darted out of the room and slams

door between us.

Axel! Let me out! Now!” I

pounding on the door. “You

I hear is Axel’s footsteps retreating rapidly

and back onto the

some more, screaming my fury, hoping