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.

want to be angry, I can’t

feel this overwhelming

rending grief for what happened to me.

the loss of the girl I was before

at the person- thing I became during those ten

now this is the reason I was hanging onto

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

vast, I’m not sure how I’ll survive

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ever escape it.

then there’s

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who put me in that situation, but he

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

realized what

refused

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

at Aaron’s behest.

help me if they don’t know the truth

good

tell some of

son put me through, but I

everything.

would risk my very life, especially where Axel

concerned.

a barrier between me and the rest of the pack- the rest of the world, really–keeping me separate and never able

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tears have started flowing, and I feel like they’re never

to stop.

inside me and locked in

agony I feel inside

stops humming and I feel him shift

don’t want to look up at

duck my head and close my

him, reality will return, and this

end.

never want this moment

held safe and tight in the arms of my

I don’t think anything else could

feel

only thing holding