Bad Love an Alpha’s Regret by Elise Sinclair

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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

he’d pulled me

thought I was going

for death, because then I would be free and

point of my

even was.

up on ever being free.

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

that

joke, some

couldn’t I just die and be at peace?

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haven’t thought about any of that–those darkest

I’d returned home.

for good reason.

fear, of being

would last and no way to

something my

no different as all

back, immediately overwhelming

in the end he has to pick me

over his shoulder.

hold, I have no way

on me is an

smaller storerooms and Axel pauses to

door and flick on the overhead light.

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rice

part of my mind tells me that

time and

fact I am about to be locked in

here.

No.

will not give

and then shoves me just

precious seconds catching my

not about to fall on my ass

he’s darted out of the room and slams

door between us.

Let me out! Now!” I yell

and pounding on the door. “You

thing I hear is Axel’s

and back

more, screaming my fury,