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 days.

me so long I’d been delirious from

pulled me out.

I was going to

be free and would no longer

constantly wondered what the point of

even was.

given up on ever being free.

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brought the pack doctor to treat me–Adam, I think his name had been–I’d tried to refuse treatment

furious that I’d

like some cruel joke, some terrible twist of

couldn’t I just die and

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any

I’d returned home.

good

that specific fear, of being

last and no way to tell how

was passing, was something my

to be no different as

back, immediately overwhelming

in the end he has to

over his shoulder.

in his hold, I have no way

is an

smaller storerooms and

door and flick on the overhead light.

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rice and other bulk

some detached part of my mind tells me that at least

this time and won’t starve.

surrendered to the fact I am

here.

No.

will not give in so

then shoves me just enough to force me

precious seconds

sure I’m not about to fall on my

small space, he’s darted out

door between us.

Now!” I yell furiously,

on the door.

is Axel’s footsteps

cellar and back onto the stairs.

more, screaming my