Bad Love an Alpha’s Regret by Elise Sinclair

Chapter 339

EMILY

I’m confused when my mind comes back to itself.

I’m no longer in the cellar storeroom, I’m in my bedroom with no recollection of how I got here.

I’m no longer cold, but wrapped up tight in a blanket, being held

tight in a strong embrace.

Being held tight by-

Axel?

He’s humming some tune I don’t recognize, but it doesn’t sound like anything composed this century. More like classical music of

some kind.

It’s hard to imagine a hardened Alpha, a warrior, the Slayer, enjoying something so tame as classical music.

I don’t know what to make of this moment.

Axel was the one who locked me up.

He’s the one who refuses to understand my need to escape, to

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shift and run on my own.

He is my mate who rejected me out of hand.

I should hate him.

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I should be furious with him.

I should be escaping his hold and kicking him out of my room,

telling him I never want to lay eyes on him again.

However, it’s like whatever happened down in that cellar

storeroom has burned away all that anger I was holding onto.

I want to be angry, I

just feel this

feel this deep, rending grief for what

girl I

at the person- thing

the reason I was hanging onto

to respond to everything–including Aaron and Axel–with fury,

I’m not sure

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ever

there’s Axel.

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was the one who put me in that situation, but

known what I’d endured at the hands

have realized what

because I’ve refused to talk

to talk about and face everything that happened to me, even

times at Aaron’s

I expect anyone to understand or help me if they don’t know the truth of

of course, there’s good reason for

of what that twisted

put me through, but

everything.

risk my very life,

concerned.

the rest of the pack- the rest of the world, really–keeping me separate

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have started flowing, and I feel like

to stop.

inside me and locked in

inside flow freely

and I feel him shift a little.

I don’t want to

duck my head and

at him, reality will return, and this moment will

end.

I never want this

in the arms of my

claim each other–and I don’t think anything else could

make me feel quite like this.

that Axel is the only thing holding me