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 can’t find it within

just feel this overwhelming

feel this deep, rending grief for what happened

loss of the girl I was

to endure, at the person- thing I became during those ten years and all

this is the reason I was hanging onto all that

to everything–including Aaron and Axel–with fury, because if I

not sure how

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I’ll ever

then there’s Axel.

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the one who put me in that situation, but he

known what I’d endured at the hands of the old

realized what his actions would

refused to

my denial of needing to talk about and face everything that happened to me, even with the pack

at Aaron’s

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

good reason for my silence.

of what

put me through, but I can’t

everything.

risk my very life, especially where

concerned.

like a barrier between me and the rest of the pack- the rest of the world, really–keeping

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flowing, and I feel like they’re

to stop.

has turned on inside

agony I feel inside flow freely without end.

humming and I feel him shift

want to look up

my head and close my

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

end.

I never want this moment

tight in the arms of my mate–even if

don’t think

feel quite like

terrified that Axel is the only