Bad Love an Alpha’s Regret by Elise Sinclair

Chapter 343

EMILY

For a while after Axel leaves, I lay in bed mulling over what just happened between us.

I’m both extremely relieved and totally peeved that we got

interrupted right when I thought Axel was actually going to finally

let go of the tight rein he keeps on his control.

At least this time Axel didn’t turn all cold and distant and terrible

after, telling me it was a mistake or couldn’t happen again or

whatever.

I know it’s a bad idea.

Logically, my brain is very aware of that fact.

However, it feels right.

In a way I just don’t know how to explain.

Well, actually, there is an easy explanation.

Because he’s my mate.

Or, he was, anyhow.

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But he rejected me, and I accepted it.

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Shouldn’t the feelings and pull we have toward one another either diminished or disappeared altogether?

I don’t get what keeps drawing us together in those moments when the rest of the time we can’t even stand one another.

Once I get sick of my brain going around and around in circles, I get up and see that Axel has left me a tray with dinner on it.

However, it’s grown cold, so I decide to take it down to the kitchen

to heat it up.

hungry, but I know that I’ll probably still eat it

anyway.

reach the bottom of the stairs, I see Jessica rushing around, and she seems to be getting a whole bunch of random things together to

can’t image where she’s in such a rush to go at this

or why she looks

worried.

to do with the

wrong?” I ask,

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you hear?” she says, looking

tray

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attack,” Jessica says, and now that I’m looking more closely, I

grabbing her arm. “Should we be

Their security is good, Aaron has upgraded it since he become Alpha. But they weren’t prepared for

can almost feel my lip curling

I hope they

myself that the Roberts

their

a deep

do?” I ask Jessica, and she stares at me in shock.

was not expecting me to offer my help.

she was probably expecting me to say exactly

I didn’t care what

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I hate

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were our enemy for countless years.

what Aaron meant when he said that

the time I was gone.

see some truth in what both Aaron and Axel kept telling me–even if the way they told me was harsh that maybe I have been selfish and close–minded,

the Roberts pack and even Leah as

concerned.

parents to a senseless war with

my own captivity at the hands of the old Roberts Alpha and his

pack will only

would have been women and

in what happened to me.

attacked, suffering, dying.

for that matter–should fall victim

hate.

vampires are trying to