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

just feel this overwhelming need to cry.

rending grief for what happened

the girl I was before

at the person- thing I became during those ten years

now this is the reason I was

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

and vast, I’m not sure how

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I’ll ever escape

then there’s

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put me in that situation,

the

couldn’t have realized what

because I’ve refused

been stubborn in my denial of needing to talk about and face everything that happened to

times at Aaron’s

to understand or help me if they don’t know

good reason for my silence.

to tell some of what that

put me through, but I can’t tell them.

everything.

risk my very life, especially where

concerned.

is like a barrier between me and the rest of the pack- the rest of the world,

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started flowing, and I

to stop.

on inside me and locked in place, letting

inside flow freely

stops humming and I feel him

want to look

I duck my head

look up at him, reality will return, and this moment will have

end.

never want this moment

arms of my mate–even if we

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

make me feel quite

Axel is the only thing holding