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 days.

me so long I’d been delirious from

pulled

was going

prayed for death, because then I would be free and

constantly wondered what the point of my continued

even was.

given up on ever

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

that I’d survived.

seemed like some cruel joke,

couldn’t I just die and

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thought about any of

I’d returned home.

good

that specific fear, of being locked down in the

long it would last and no way to tell

was passing, was something my brain refused

no different as all those

immediately overwhelming me.

the end he has to pick me up and fling

over his shoulder.

in his hold, I have no way to

me is

the smaller storerooms

and flick on the

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are some basics like rice and other bulk provisions stacked

some detached part of my mind tells me that at

this time

to the fact I am about to be locked

here.

No.

will not give in so

and then shoves me just

use precious seconds catching my

sure I’m not about to fall on my ass and

the small space, he’s darted out of the

door between us.

out! Now!” I

on the door. “You bastard!”

is Axel’s footsteps retreating

back onto the stairs.

some more, screaming my