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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breath and have to look away from him, focusing on the wall beyond

you took me–locked me–in the cellar, it triggered

old Roberts

but it’s like

Axel looks distressed.

is, it’s in the past. I’m sorry, if I’d known-”

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

take a deep breath, returning my gaze to Axel

me closely, and I think I see a hint of

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

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attention, as if nothing could be more important to him at

moment.

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take another slow breath as I feel my

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

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

food or water.”

his anger growing, and suddenly I’m unsure about

he

I do

beginning to shrink away from him, but

smoothed

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

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for you to tell me that, so

angry?” I dare to ask him, though my voice is hesitant and not much

runs it over my tangled hair in a comforting, affectionate gesture, one I