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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take a deep breath and have to look away from him, focusing on the wall beyond his

took me–locked me–in

old Roberts Alpha used to-”

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

Axel looks distressed.

me. Whatever it is, it’s in the past.

it anyway,” I tell him, because it looks like he’s ready to start beating himself 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 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 going to

deep breath, returning my gaze to Axel to

and I think I see

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 you understand.”

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me his undivided attention, as if nothing could be more important

moment.

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as I

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

light, and he used to toss me down there for hours or sometimes days at a time

food or water.”

listening, but I can see his anger growing, and suddenly

he getting angry?

do something wrong?

feel myself beginning to shrink away

and smoothed his

sorry that happened to you,” Axel says

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I know how much it must have taken for you to tell me that, so thank you for sharing

though my voice is hesitant and not much

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