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.

so long

he’d pulled me

thought I was going to die.

would be free and would no longer be forced to live in

constantly wondered what the point of my continued existence

even was.

up on ever being free.

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

that I’d survived.

joke, some terrible twist of

I just die and be at

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thought about any of

I’d returned home.

for good reason.

that specific fear, of being locked down in

idea how long it would last and

passing, was something my brain refused to

be no different as

back, immediately

end he has to

over his shoulder.

no

grip on me is an inescapable

reach one of the smaller storerooms and Axel pauses to

door and flick on the overhead light.

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some basics like rice and other bulk

mind tells me that at least I

time and won’t starve.

the fact I am about to be locked in

here.

No.

give in so

and then shoves me just enough to force

precious seconds catching my balance.

about to fall

small space, he’s darted out

door between us.

Now!” I yell furiously,

and pounding on the

thing I hear is Axel’s footsteps retreating rapidly across

cellar and back onto

some more, screaming my fury, hoping