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

so long I’d been delirious from dehydration

he’d pulled

I was going

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

constantly wondered what the point

even was.

given up on

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had brought the pack doctor to treat me–Adam, I think his name had

that I’d survived.

like some cruel joke, some terrible twist of

I just die and

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any of that–those darkest days–since

I’d returned home.

for good

of being locked

idea how long it would last and

my brain refused

different as all those horrible

back, immediately

Axel so hard, in the end he has to pick me up

over his shoulder.

hold, I have no way to

grip on me is an

smaller storerooms and Axel pauses

and flick on the overhead light.

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like rice and other bulk provisions stacked

my mind tells me that

time and won’t starve.

surrendered to the fact I am about to be

here.

No.

give

then shoves me just enough

seconds

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

he’s darted out of the room and

door between us.

Let me out! Now!” I yell furiously, yanking

the door. “You bastard!”

thing I hear is Axel’s

cellar and back onto the stairs.

more, screaming my fury, hoping the