Bad Love an Alpha’s Regret by Elise Sinclair

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I can’t bring myself to name what I’m feeling.

If I do, it’s putting too much power behind the emotion.

“Axel, why did you break the bond?”

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I didn’t mean to blurt that out, but once the words are out there, I

watch him flinch.

But he keeps walking.

Axel?” I try again.

He doesn’t answer right away, and I swallow down the lump in

my throat. But I don’t turn back. I follow him into the annex. To the

far end, pushing into the bathroom after him and not caring if he

wants his privacy or not.

He washes himself in the sink. The blood sluicing off his arms and

chest.

I wait as he cleanses away the remnants of the fighting. I want to

help him. To take the towel from his hand and care for him myself,

but I know it’s not what he wants right now.

“Why, Axel?” I repeat. “Is it because of what happened to me?

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Because you knew I would be some broken, fragile mess?”

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He hurls the last of the rags aside and steps forward. He catches. my upper arms, his expression fierce.

“I don’t think that about you at all, Emily,” he says in an intense tone. “I think you’re strong and resilient. I think you’re amazing. Instead of being broken by what you went through, you let it make

you stronger. Not many people can claim that.”

I let a wan smile tug at my lips.

Not many people have been through what I went through, and I

with Axel’s

whisper this time, looking

the

for a second and I think maybe

me after

to go from here if he can’t be truthful with

give in to whatever

inside his head.

pulling me closer still, holding me properly now, his touch tender. “Well, it was, just not in the way you’re

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to me,” I say, daring to

embrace in

shadow enters his gaze, one that’s sad and haunted. “I’m centuries old, and in all the time, the Moon Goddess never once granted me a mate. I understood why. I live a dangerous existence. And I’m immortal. What good would it do to have a mate for a single, mortal lifetime, only to lose. her and then maybe lose myself in the process. How would I

never

perspective.

sense why

to save both of

and a hint of gratitude

he continues. “I’ve made many enemies

my long lifetime, and I will no doubt make

of them could easily threaten or

me in countless terrible ways.”

I realize

been selfish, that he was some kind of

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want to be with damaged

like I am.

he was trying

the least

come up

and I realize it hurts that my

in such a terrible position, and there’s nothing I can do to help

him.

as if he

what to do with the fact.

I nod emphatically.

thing I want to do is make your

doing these past

Axel replies. “I played my part in it as

well.”

and for a moment, we stand

trust and

between us.

be in my life

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