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.

though I want to be angry, I can’t find it

this overwhelming need to

rending grief for what

the girl I

at what I was forced to endure, at the person- thing I became

this is the reason I was hanging onto all

Axel–with fury, because if

not sure how I’ll

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I’ll ever

then there’s

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was the one who put me in

the hands of the

realized what his actions would

me, because I’ve refused to talk about

about and face everything that

several times at Aaron’s

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

course, there’s good

tell some of what that twisted

twisted son put me through, but I

everything.

so would risk my very life, especially where

concerned.

of the world, really–keeping me separate and never able to fully engage or feel like

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I feel like

to stop.

faucet has turned on inside me

agony I feel inside

feel him shift a

don’t want to

duck my head and close my eyes.

will return, and this moment

end.

want this moment to

and tight in the arms of my

don’t think anything

make me feel quite like

that Axel is the only thing holding me together right