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

me so long I’d been delirious

he’d pulled me out.

I was going to

free and would no longer be forced

constantly wondered what the point of my continued existence

even was.

on ever being

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

that

like some cruel joke, some terrible twist

die and be at

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about any

I’d returned home.

for good

memory of that specific fear, of being locked down in

how long it would last and no way to

my brain refused to handle.

to be no different as all those

back, immediately

in the end he

over his shoulder.

I have no way

on me is an inescapable vice.

smaller storerooms and Axel pauses to open

and flick on

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some basics like rice and

detached part of my mind tells me that

light this time and won’t starve.

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

here.

No.

give

and then shoves me

use precious seconds catching my

not about to

small space, he’s darted out of the room

door between us.

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

the door. “You bastard!”

only thing I hear is Axel’s footsteps

and back onto the

some more, screaming my fury, hoping