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

me so long I’d been delirious

pulled

thought I was

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

constantly wondered what the point of my

even was.

given up on

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treat me–Adam, I think his name had

furious that I’d survived.

some cruel joke, some terrible

just die and be

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any of that–those darkest

I’d returned home.

good reason.

specific fear, of being locked down in

last and no way to tell how

something my brain refused to

as all those horrible feelings come

back, immediately overwhelming me.

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

over his shoulder.

hold, I have no

is an

one of the smaller storerooms and

door and flick on the overhead light.

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are some basics like rice and other bulk provisions stacked

some detached part of my mind tells

time and

to the fact I am about to be locked

here.

No.

not give in so

sets me down and then shoves me

precious seconds

make sure I’m not about to fall on

darted out of the room and slams the

door between us.

out! Now!” I

and pounding on the door.

thing I hear is Axel’s footsteps

and back onto

door some more, screaming my