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 been delirious from

he’d pulled me

was

free and

the point of my continued existence

even was.

on ever being free.

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had brought the pack doctor to treat me–Adam, I think

furious that

joke, some terrible twist

die

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thought about any of that–those darkest days–since

I’d returned home.

for good

specific fear, of being locked down in the

no idea how long it would last and no way to

something my brain

be no different as all

immediately overwhelming

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

over his shoulder.

have no way

on me is an

reach one of the smaller storerooms and Axel pauses

flick on the overhead light.

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are some basics like rice

of my mind

light this time and

already surrendered to the fact I am about to be locked

here.

No.

not give in so

and then shoves

precious seconds catching my

about to fall on my ass and rush

out of the room and slams

door between us.

Axel! Let me out! Now!”

the door.

I hear is Axel’s footsteps retreating rapidly

cellar and back

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