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

feel this overwhelming need to

grief for what happened to

I was before I

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

now this is the reason I was hanging onto all that

respond to everything–including Aaron and Axel–with fury, because if I let myself feel this anguish, it’s so

I’m not sure how I’ll survive it.

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I’ll ever escape

then there’s

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who put me in that situation, but he

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

what his actions

because I’ve refused to talk about it.

and face everything that happened to me, even with the pack therapist I’ve

at Aaron’s

can I expect anyone to understand or help me if

there’s good reason for my

to tell some of

son put me through, but I can’t

everything.

so would risk my very life,

concerned.

rest of the world, really–keeping me separate and

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and I feel like

to stop.

turned on inside me

feel inside flow

humming and I feel him shift

want to look

duck my head and

reality will

end.

this

and tight in the arms of my mate–even if

I don’t think anything

feel

terrified that Axel is the only thing holding me together right