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.

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

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

I can’t image where she’s in such a rush to

night with all that stuff, or

worried.

with the phone call

wrong?” I ask, catching

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she says, looking

the tray aside, food forgotten. “Has

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been an attack,” Jessica says, and now that I’m looking more closely, I can see she’s pale and

demand, stepping forward and grabbing her arm.

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

almost feel my lip curling in disdain.

initial instinct is to say good, I hope

I remind myself that the Roberts pack

their

I take a

ask Jessica, and she stares at me in shock.

she was not expecting me to

fact, she was probably expecting me to say exactly

what happened

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hate

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they were our enemy for countless years.

to see what Aaron meant when he said that

time

perhaps I’m also beginning to see some truth in what both Aaron and Axel kept telling me–even if the way they told

least where the Roberts pack and even Leah as my Luna

concerned.

still hurts that we lost our parents to a senseless war with them.

hands of the old Roberts Alpha and his son Liam is going to take years for me to recover

hatred toward the Roberts pack

there would have been women and

had no part in what happened to me. They were

attacked, suffering, dying.

for that matter–should fall

hate.

now that the vampires are trying to