Bad Love an Alpha’s Regret by Elise Sinclair

Chapter 345

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

Axel’s assessment of me.

why?” I whisper this time, looking up at him, searching his

the

torn for a second and I think maybe he’s not going to

after

where to go from here if

in to whatever thoughts

inside his head.

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

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explain it to me,” I say, daring to lift my hands

embrace in a way I never

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 go on living and upholding the peace between wolves and vampires if I went mad from grief over

never considered things from this

perspective.

total sense why he rejected me.

of us from

him in a quiet voice, and a hint

continues. “I’ve made

and I will no doubt make

had a mate, any of them could easily threaten or

countless terrible ways.”

realize that

selfish, that he was

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didn’t want to be

like I am.

he was trying to protect

the least selfish ones

come up

understand,” I say, and I realize it hurts that

position, and there’s nothing I can do to help

him.

do?” he whispers, as if he can’t quite

do with

I nod emphatically.

I want to do is make your life harder, and that’s all

been doing these past

“I played

well.”

into a hug, and for a

trust and depth of

between us.

be in my life forever.

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