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

left me so long I’d been delirious from dehydration

he’d pulled

was going

be free and

the point of my continued existence

even was.

up on ever being free.

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

that I’d survived.

joke, some terrible twist of fate.

I just die and be at peace?

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thought about any

I’d returned home.

for good

that specific fear, of being locked down in

long it would last and no way

something my brain refused to handle.

be no different as all those horrible feelings

immediately overwhelming

in the end he has to pick

over his shoulder.

no way to properly fight or escape.

grip on me is an

the smaller storerooms and Axel pauses

flick on

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basics like rice and other bulk provisions stacked

my mind tells me that

time and won’t starve.

surrendered to the fact I am about to be locked in

here.

No.

will not give in so

me down and then shoves me just

precious seconds catching my

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

darted out of the room and

door between us.

Axel! Let me out! Now!”

the

I hear is Axel’s footsteps retreating rapidly across

cellar and back

more, screaming my