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

me–locked me–in

old

to say more, but it’s like words suddenly leave

Axel looks distressed.

to tell me. Whatever it is, it’s in the

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 past and pretended it didn’t affect me now. But it’s not that easy. It’s not

deep breath, returning my gaze to Axel to find him

I see

from everyone. “And the way to do that is to begin by talking. At least that’s what the pack therapist told me. I need to tell you what

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nods, his gaze trained on me, giving me his undivided attention, as

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

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

food or water.”

anger growing, and suddenly I’m unsure about

he getting

I do

away from

and smoothed his

that happened to

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for you to tell

angry?” I dare to ask him, though my voice is hesitant and not much more than

a comforting, affectionate gesture, one