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

he’d left me so long

he’d pulled me

I was going to

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

what the point of

even was.

given up on ever being

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

furious that

like some cruel joke,

die and be

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haven’t thought about any of that–those

I’d returned home.

for good reason.

of that specific fear, of being locked down in the

would last

was something my brain refused

as

immediately overwhelming me.

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

over his shoulder.

I have no way to properly fight or

on me is an inescapable

smaller storerooms and Axel

flick on

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rice and other

of my mind tells

this time and

if I’ve already surrendered to the fact I am about

here.

No.

give in so

me down and then shoves me

seconds catching my

time I make sure I’m not about to fall on my ass and rush

small space, he’s darted out of the room and

door between us.

me out! Now!” I yell furiously,

on the

is Axel’s footsteps retreating rapidly

cellar and back onto

pound on the door some more, screaming