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 days.

left me so long I’d been

he’d pulled me out.

I was going to

would be free and would no longer be forced

constantly wondered what the point of

even was.

up on ever being free.

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

furious that I’d survived.

like some cruel joke, some terrible

I just die and be at peace?

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about any of that–those

I’d returned home.

for good

specific fear, of being locked down in the

would last and no way to tell how much

passing, was something my brain refused

proves to be no different as all those horrible feelings

immediately

Axel so hard, in the end he

over his shoulder.

I have no way to

on me is an

of the smaller storerooms and Axel

on the overhead light.

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some basics like rice and other bulk provisions

part of my mind tells me that at least I

time and

to the fact I am about to

here.

No.

not give in so

me down and then shoves me just enough to force me

precious seconds catching

not about to fall on

he’s darted out of the room and slams the

door between us.

Let me out! Now!” I yell furiously, yanking at

the door. “You bastard!”

is Axel’s footsteps retreating rapidly across

back onto the

pound on the door some more,