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.

me so long I’d

pulled

I was going

free and would no longer be forced to

constantly wondered what the point

even was.

given up on

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

that

like some cruel joke, some terrible twist of fate.

couldn’t I just die

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any of

I’d returned home.

good reason.

specific fear, of

would last and no way to tell

my brain refused to

proves to be no different as all those horrible

back, immediately overwhelming me.

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

over his shoulder.

have no way to properly fight or

on me is

smaller storerooms

flick on the overhead light.

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are some basics like rice and

of my mind tells me that at least

light this time and won’t

fact I am about

here.

No.

not give in

sets me down and then shoves me just enough to force me

precious seconds catching my balance.

make sure I’m not about to fall on

small space, he’s darted out

door between us.

me out! Now!” I yell furiously, yanking at the

and pounding on the

is Axel’s footsteps retreating rapidly across

and back onto the

door some more, screaming my fury, hoping the