Bad Love an Alpha’s Regret by Elise Sinclair

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

me–in

old Roberts Alpha used to-”

to say more, but it’s

Axel looks distressed.

Whatever it is, it’s in the

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

returning my gaze to Axel to

I see a hint of pride

of facing the things inside me. Especially the biggest secret I’m keeping 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 happened, so

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his undivided attention, as

moment.

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slow breath as I feel my

But sometimes he punished me simply because he was in a bad mood, or because something was going wrong in his pack, or because he’d get some news about Leah he didn’t like. One of the things he did sometimes was lock me in the storm cellar beneath the house. It wasn’t

closet. There was no light, and he used to toss me down there for hours or sometimes days at a time without

food or water.”

can see his anger growing, and suddenly I’m unsure

he getting angry?

I do

beginning to shrink away from him, but he

and smoothed his

sorry that happened to you,” Axel says in a gentle

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taken for you to

to ask him, though

in a comforting, affectionate gesture, one I wouldn’t have ever thought to associate