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 days.

he’d left me so long I’d been delirious from

he’d pulled

I was going to

would be free and would no longer be forced to live in fear

point of my continued

even was.

up on ever

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

that I’d

joke, some terrible twist of

just die and be at

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haven’t thought about any

I’d returned home.

good reason.

of being locked down

idea how long it would last and

was something my brain refused to

as

immediately overwhelming

Axel so hard, in the end he has to

over his shoulder.

no way to properly

on me is an

of the smaller storerooms and Axel pauses to

door and flick on the overhead

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some basics like rice and other bulk provisions stacked

detached part of my mind tells me

time and won’t

to the fact I am about to be locked

here.

No.

not give in so easily.

me down and then shoves me just enough to force

use precious seconds catching my

I’m not about to fall on

out of the room and

door between us.

it, Axel! Let me out! Now!” I

the door. “You

is Axel’s footsteps retreating rapidly across

and back onto the

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