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.

left me so long I’d

pulled

I was

I’d prayed for death, because then I would be free and would no longer be forced to live in fear or

wondered what the point of my continued existence

even was.

given up on ever being free.

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

that I’d survived.

like some cruel joke, some terrible

just die and be

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haven’t thought about any

I’d returned home.

for good

fear, of being locked down in

would last and no way to tell how much

was something my brain refused to

to be no different as

immediately

end he has to pick me up and fling

over his shoulder.

I have no way to properly fight or

me is an inescapable vice.

the smaller storerooms and Axel pauses to

on

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are some basics like rice and other

mind tells me that at least I

light this time and won’t starve.

already surrendered to the fact I am

here.

No.

will not give

shoves me just enough to force

precious seconds catching

not about to fall on my ass

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

door between us.

Now!” I yell

the door. “You bastard!”

I hear is Axel’s footsteps retreating rapidly

and back onto the

on the door some more, screaming my