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

took me–locked me–in the cellar,

when the old Roberts

say more, but it’s like

Axel looks distressed.

to tell me. Whatever it is, it’s

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

breath, returning my gaze to Axel to

I think I see a hint of pride in his gaze.

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

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

moment.

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as I feel my pulse rate picking up.

old Roberts 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

light, and he used to toss me down there for hours

food or water.”

I can see his anger growing, and

is he getting

I do something

to shrink away from him, but he gentles

and smoothed his expression.

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

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

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

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