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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breath and have to look away from

me–locked me–in the cellar,

old Roberts Alpha

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

Axel looks distressed.

Whatever it is, it’s in the

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

a deep breath, returning my

think I see a hint of

terrified 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

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his gaze trained on me, giving me his undivided attention, as if nothing could be

moment.

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as I feel my pulse rate

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

and he used to toss me down there for hours or sometimes days at a time without any

food or water.”

see his anger growing, and suddenly I’m unsure about telling him

is he getting

I do something

to shrink away from him, but

smoothed

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

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it must have taken for you to tell me that, so

him, though my voice is hesitant and not much more than

over my tangled hair in a comforting, affectionate gesture, one I wouldn’t