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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away from him, focusing on the wall beyond his

you took me–locked me–in the cellar,

the old Roberts Alpha used to-”

say more, but it’s

Axel looks distressed.

it is,

up over 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

my gaze

think I see a hint of pride in

with it,” I say resolutely, even though I’m terrified of facing the things inside me. Especially the biggest secret I’m keeping from everyone. “And the

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undivided attention, as if nothing could be more

moment.

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take another slow breath as I feel my

Alpha had a few different ways he would punish me. Sometimes it was because I did something wrong–though not often. 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, 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

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

food or water.”

anger growing, and suddenly I’m unsure about

he getting

I do

away from him, but he gentles

and smoothed

that happened to you,” Axel says in

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must have taken for you to

angry?” I dare to ask him, though my voice is hesitant

his hands and gentle runs it over my tangled hair in a comforting, affectionate gesture, one I wouldn’t have