Bad Love an Alpha’s Regret by Elise Sinclair

Chapter 337

AXEL

I’m so furious with Emily and the fact I scented another man on her that I don’t even realize what I’ve done until I get back upstairs and see some of the housekeepers and Jessica gathered by the foot of the stairs, staring at me with wide, alarmed eyes and shocked expressions.

I glare at them with a low Alpha snarl, and they scatter, rushing off and out of my sight.

I stalk up to my room and slam the door, but then think maybe I should have gone outside and shifted to run off some of this fury.

That, and escape the shame rapidly burning hotter and higher within me.

I don’t know how to get through to Emily that she can’t keep running off on her own. It’s especially worse if she’s leaving the safety of Rathborn lands altogether.

But the fact that she’s clearly meeting up with some other mant has singed me all the way to the heart I claim not to possess.

It shouldn’t matter.

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I rejected her.

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We can’t even be together, not without her living under constant threat from my enemies.

I should want her to move on and be happy.

Except I’m not that altruistic.

I’m definitely not that selfless.

The idea of her being with someone else is enough to drive me wild with rage, as highlighted by the fact I just dragged her down

to the cellar and locked her up like some kind of caveman.

The shame burns hotter as old memories taunt me.

Things I haven’t thought about for decades.

Not even being locked up by that bitch Karolina reopened these old scars, but knowing that I just subjected the mate I can’t claim to being locked underground in a small, windowless room is eating away at my insides like acid.

I spent almost one hundred years locked in the cold, damp, dark dungeon of a castle back in Romania.

of a ruthless clan of vampires who

subdue me with

poisonous

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wolfsbane is to wolves.

they didn’t give me enough to kill me, just enough to keep me in a constantly weakened

misery, the memories of which I usually keep locked down in a vault

my treatment of Emily has brought

back.

leave her down

have put her down there in the first place.

she had been locked in that damn house

and I’m hoping once she calms down,

finally learn her lesson and stop

told multiple times by both myself, and Aaron that doing so puts both her

danger.

get my shit together, although my gut still feels

as I leave my room to get back to my duties.

can still hear Emily yelling in a senseless rage down in the

I won’t be able to

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not letting her out until she’s calmed down and

to reason.

few hours go by and it’s

be calmer by now, and as I step into the house and focus my heightened senses, I don’t hear any shouting

ready for her to arrive. And if I’m extra careful selecting the most tender cuts of meat and perfectly cooked vegetables for

will ever be none–the–wiser about

the cellar, approaching the door slowly in case Emily starts up

coming.

side of the

it almost makes me suspicious about what she might

planning now.

I’m wary and on alert as I unlock it

door open.

see how the back side of the door is all scratched

with deep claw marks gouged into the

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