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 been delirious

pulled

was

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

point

even was.

given up on ever being free.

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

that I’d survived.

seemed like some cruel joke, some terrible twist of fate.

couldn’t I just die and be at

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about any of

I’d returned home.

for good

specific fear, of being locked

last and no

was passing, was something my

no different as all those horrible feelings come

immediately overwhelming me.

so hard, in the end he

over his shoulder.

in his hold, I have no way to properly fight or

me is an inescapable

the smaller storerooms

on the overhead

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like rice and other bulk

of my mind tells me that

this time and won’t starve.

already surrendered to the fact

here.

No.

give in so easily.

down and then shoves me just enough to force

precious seconds catching my

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

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

door between us.

out! Now!” I

the door. “You

thing I hear is Axel’s

back onto the stairs.

more, screaming