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 find it within me any

feel this overwhelming

rending grief

the girl I was before

forced to endure, at the person- thing I became during those

this is the reason I was hanging onto all

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

and vast, I’m not sure how

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ever escape

then there’s

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he was the one who put me in that

what I’d endured at the hands of the

what his actions would trigger

refused to talk about it.

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

times at Aaron’s

or help me if

good reason

to tell some of what that twisted old bastard

equally twisted son put me through,

everything.

so would risk my very

concerned.

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

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I feel

to stop.

inside me and locked in

feel inside flow freely

and I feel him shift a little.

want to

fact, I duck my head

look up at him, reality will

end.

want this moment to end.

in the arms

each other–and I don’t think

feel quite like

that Axel is the only thing holding me