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

he’d left me so long I’d been

he’d pulled

I was

and would no longer be forced to live in fear or captivity.

what the point of

even was.

up on ever being free.

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

that

seemed like some cruel joke, some terrible twist of

die and be at

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about any of that–those darkest

I’d returned home.

good reason.

of being locked down in

long it would last and

was something my brain refused

be no different as all those horrible feelings come

back, immediately

the end he has to pick

over his shoulder.

hold, I have no way to properly fight or

me is an inescapable vice.

one of the smaller storerooms and Axel pauses

flick on the overhead light.

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basics like rice and other bulk provisions

my mind tells me that at least I

this time and won’t starve.

already surrendered to the fact I am

here.

No.

not give in

then shoves me just enough to force

use precious seconds catching

about to

the small space, he’s darted out

door between us.

out! Now!” I yell furiously, yanking at the

and pounding on the door. “You bastard!”

thing I hear is Axel’s

cellar and back onto the

the door some more, screaming my fury, hoping