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.

left me so long I’d been delirious from dehydration

pulled me out.

thought I was going

and would no longer be forced to live in

constantly wondered what the point of

even was.

on ever being

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

that I’d survived.

joke, some terrible

just die and

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about any

I’d returned home.

good reason.

that specific fear, of being locked down in the

it would last and no way to tell how

my brain refused to handle.

to be no different as all those

back, immediately overwhelming

in the end he has to pick me

over his shoulder.

I have no way

on me is an

storerooms

flick on

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are some basics like rice and other

my mind tells me that

light this time and

if I’ve already surrendered to the fact I am

here.

No.

will not give in

down and then shoves me just enough to force me

seconds catching my balance.

make sure I’m not about to

out of the room and slams

door between us.

it, Axel! Let me out! Now!” I yell

on the door. “You

is Axel’s footsteps retreating rapidly

cellar and back onto the

pound on the door some more,