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

he’d left me so long I’d been delirious

pulled me

thought I was

I’d prayed for death, because then I would be free and would no longer be forced

wondered what the point of my continued existence

even was.

on ever

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doctor to treat me–Adam, I think his name

that I’d

cruel joke, some terrible twist

couldn’t I just die and be

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thought about any of that–those darkest

I’d returned home.

good reason.

memory of that specific fear, of being locked down in

long it would last and no way

something my brain refused to handle.

no different as all those

immediately overwhelming

in the end he has

over his shoulder.

have no

is

storerooms and Axel pauses to

flick on

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are some basics like rice

and some detached part of my mind

this time and won’t starve.

to the fact I am about to be locked in

here.

No.

not give in

down and then shoves me

seconds catching my balance.

I’m not about

darted out of the

door between us.

it, Axel! Let me out! Now!”

and pounding on the door. “You bastard!”

is Axel’s footsteps

cellar and back onto the

more,