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

me–locked me–in

the old Roberts Alpha used to-”

but it’s like

Axel looks distressed.

Whatever it is, it’s in the past. I’m sorry, if

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

breath, returning my gaze to Axel

I see

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

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attention, as

moment.

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I feel

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

was no light, and he used to toss me down there for hours

food or water.”

but I can see his anger growing,

he getting

do something wrong?

beginning to shrink away from him, but he gentles his

smoothed his expression.

sorry that happened to you,” Axel says

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have taken for you to tell me that, so thank you for sharing with

why are you getting angry?” I dare to ask him, though my voice

my tangled hair in a comforting, affectionate gesture, one