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 days.

left me so long I’d been delirious from dehydration

pulled me

was going

I’d prayed for death, because then I would be free and would

constantly wondered what the point of my continued existence

even was.

on ever being

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

furious that I’d

some cruel joke, some terrible twist

just die

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any of that–those

I’d returned home.

good

specific fear, of being

last and no

something my brain

proves to be no different as all those horrible feelings

back, immediately

so hard, in the end he has

over his shoulder.

no way to properly

me is an

the smaller storerooms and Axel pauses to open

on the

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like rice and other bulk provisions

some detached part of my mind tells me that at least

this time and won’t starve.

surrendered to the fact I am about to be

here.

No.

will not give

and then shoves me just

precious seconds catching my

the time I make sure I’m not about to fall on

darted out of the room and slams the

door between us.

out! Now!” I yell furiously, yanking at

pounding on the door. “You

thing I hear is Axel’s

back

on the door some more, screaming my fury, hoping the