Bad Love an Alpha’s Regret by Elise Sinclair

Chapter 340

I knew it couldn’t last, and all too soon, Axel is shifting, pulling

away from me.

Except he doesn’t let me go and get up from the bed.

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He simply loosens his hold and leans back from me, then sets his hand beneath my chin so I’m forced to look up at him.

I can’t even imagine how wrecked I must appear right now.

After that hurricane of rage in the cellar storeroom leaving my hair in a tangle, and now with tears wetting my face, I must look quite

the sight.

However, Axel doesn’t seem to notice.

He looks worried–like he actually cares about me–as he stares down at me with a furrowed brow.

“Emily,” he says, again in that low voice that makes me shiver. “Talk to me. What happened down there?”

I’m not really ready to talk–truthfully, I don’t think I’ll ever be ready to talk about this–but I know it’s long past time I actually

started telling someone, anyone, some of the things that

happened to me.

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to look away from him, focusing on the wall beyond his

took me–locked me–in the cellar,

the old Roberts Alpha

but it’s like words suddenly leave my

Axel looks distressed.

you don’t have to tell me. Whatever it is, it’s in the past.

it. “Because I didn’t tell you. Because I refused to talk to anyone about what happened to me. Like I could make it go away, make it hurt less, make me less broken if I forced it to be in the

returning my gaze to Axel to

see a hint of pride in

the way to do that is to begin by talking. At least that’s what the pack therapist told me.

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giving me his undivided attention, as if

moment.

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as I feel

After a few years, I tried my hardest to be good and docile so he would leave me alone. But sometimes he punished me simply because he was in a bad mood, or because something was going wrong in his pack,

closet. There was no light, and he used to toss me down there for

food or water.”

his anger growing, and

he

I do something

myself beginning to shrink away from him,

smoothed his expression.

happened to you,”

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know how much it must have taken for you to tell me that,

ask him, though my

one of his hands and gentle runs it over my tangled hair in a comforting, affectionate gesture, one I wouldn’t have ever thought to associate with