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

so long I’d been delirious

he’d pulled me

I was

because then I would be free and would no longer be forced to live in

what the point

even was.

on ever being

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

that

joke, some terrible twist

I just die and

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any of

I’d returned home.

good

fear, of being locked down in the dark

idea how long it would last and no way to tell how much

was passing, was something my brain refused

proves to be no different as all those horrible

immediately overwhelming me.

the end he has to pick me

over his shoulder.

have no way to properly fight

is an

the smaller storerooms

and flick on

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rice and other

of my mind

time

I’ve already surrendered to the fact

here.

No.

give in

then shoves me just enough to force

seconds catching my balance.

the time I make sure I’m not about

small space, he’s darted out of the room and slams the

door between us.

it, Axel! Let me out! Now!” I yell

on the

thing I hear is Axel’s footsteps retreating

back

on the door some more, screaming my