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

left me so long I’d been

pulled me

I was going to die.

because then I would be free and would no longer be forced to live in fear or captivity.

point of

even was.

up on ever being

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doctor to treat me–Adam, I think his name had been–I’d

furious that I’d survived.

some cruel joke, some

die and be at peace?

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any

I’d returned home.

good reason.

specific fear, of

last and no way to tell how much

my brain refused

different as all those horrible

back, immediately

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

over his shoulder.

his hold, I have no

is an inescapable vice.

storerooms and Axel

door and flick on the overhead light.

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some basics like rice and

my mind tells me that at

light this time and won’t starve.

surrendered to the fact I am about

here.

No.

will not give in

and then shoves me just enough to force

seconds catching my balance.

not about to fall on my ass

the small space, he’s darted out of

door between us.

me out! Now!” I yell furiously, yanking

on the door. “You bastard!”

I hear is Axel’s footsteps retreating

back onto the

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