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.

been days.

long I’d been delirious

he’d pulled

thought I was going to

for death, because then I would be free and

wondered what the point of my continued existence

even was.

given up on

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

furious that I’d survived.

some cruel joke, some terrible twist of

die

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thought about any of

I’d returned home.

for good

of that specific fear, of being locked down in the

how long it would last

my

no different as all those horrible

back, immediately overwhelming me.

end he has to pick me up

over his shoulder.

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

on me is an inescapable vice.

storerooms and

door and flick on the

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rice and other bulk

part of my mind tells

light this time and

surrendered to the fact I am about to be

here.

No.

give in

down and then shoves me just enough to

seconds

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

out of the

door between us.

Let me out! Now!” I

and pounding on the door.

thing I hear is Axel’s footsteps retreating rapidly across

cellar and back onto the

on the door some more, screaming