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.

to be angry, I

this overwhelming need to cry.

this deep, rending grief for what happened

I was

person- thing I became during those

this is the reason I was hanging

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

vast, I’m not sure how

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I’ll ever

then there’s

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who put me in

what I’d endured at the hands of the

He couldn’t have realized what

refused to talk

denial of needing to talk about and face everything that happened to me, even with the pack therapist I’ve

at Aaron’s behest.

anyone to understand or help me if

of course, there’s good reason for my silence.

tell some of

me through, but I can’t

everything.

my very life, especially where Axel

concerned.

rest of the world, really–keeping me

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tears have started flowing, and I

to stop.

on inside

agony I feel inside flow freely without

humming and I feel him shift a little.

want to look up at

duck my head and close my

reality will return, and this moment will have to

end.

I never want this moment

safe and tight in the arms of my mate–even if we can

don’t think anything

feel quite like this.

that Axel is the only thing holding