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

me with a potent mix

Valerian is poisonous to vampires

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wolfsbane is to wolves.

me, just enough to keep

the memories of which I usually keep locked down in a vault inside my

of Emily has brought it all rushing

back.

her down

shouldn’t have put her down

knowing she had been locked in that damn house

the deed is done now, and I’m hoping once

stop sneaking off to

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

danger.

shit together, although my

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

yelling in a senseless

I won’t be able to

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letting her out until she’s calmed down and ready

to reason.

hours go by and it’s dinner time.

as I step into the house and focus my heightened senses, I don’t hear any shouting coming from the cellar

decide to go and make a tray, then take Emily’s dinner up to her room, ready for her to arrive. And if I’m extra careful selecting the most tender cuts

one will ever

then go down to the cellar, approaching the door slowly in case Emily starts up her rage and aggression again when she hears me

coming.

on the other side of the door remains

me suspicious about what she might be

planning now.

about jumping me the second I open the door, so I’m

door open.

when I see how the back side of the door

with deep claw marks gouged into the

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