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 can’t find it within

I just feel this overwhelming need to cry.

this deep, rending grief for what happened to me.

the girl I was before I got abducted.

at what I was forced to endure, at the person- thing I became during those ten years

now this is the reason I

Aaron and Axel–with fury, because if I let myself feel

and vast, I’m not sure how I’ll

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ever escape

there’s

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was the one who put me in that situation, but he

the hands of

what his actions would

because I’ve refused to talk about it.

talk about and face everything that happened to

times at

expect anyone to understand or help me if they don’t

there’s good reason for my

I want to tell some of what that twisted old bastard

me through, but

everything.

my very life,

concerned.

and the rest of the pack- the rest of the world, really–keeping me separate and never able to fully

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have started flowing, and I

to stop.

has turned on inside me and locked

feel inside flow

humming and I feel

to look up at

I duck my head and close my

him, reality will return, and this

end.

never want this moment to end.

the arms of my mate–even if we

don’t

make me feel quite like this.

the only thing holding me together right