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.

but I know that I’ll probably still eat it

anyway.

bottom of the stairs, I see Jessica rushing around, and she seems to be getting a

she’s in such a

with all that stuff, or why she looks

worried.

with the phone call

I ask, catching her

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hear?” she says, looking concerned.

the tray aside, food

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and now that I’m looking more closely, I can see she’s pale

demand, stepping forward and grabbing her arm.

shake of her head. “Roberts. pack. Their security is good, Aaron has upgraded it since he become Alpha. But they

almost feel my lip

instinct is to say good, I hope they

I remind myself that the Roberts pack itself aren’t to

their twisted old

I take a deep breath.

ask Jessica, and she stares at me

not expecting me to offer

me

I didn’t care what happened

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I hate them.

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they were our enemy for countless years.

to see what Aaron meant when he said that a

the time I was gone.

kept telling me–even

least where the Roberts pack and even Leah

concerned.

lost our parents to a senseless war with

captivity at the hands of the old Roberts Alpha and his son Liam is going to take

toward the Roberts pack will only bring more hurt.

have been women and children and

had no part in what happened

attacked, suffering, dying.

no wolf–or human for that matter–should fall victim to

hate.

are trying to