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 assessment of me.

why?” I whisper this time, looking

the

looks torn for a second and I think maybe

after all.

don’t know where to go from here if he can’t

seems to give in to whatever thoughts are

inside his

holding me properly now, his touch

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I say, daring to lift

his embrace in a way I never imagined I would be.

“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

I’ve never considered things

perspective.

sense why

save both of

a quiet voice, and a hint of gratitude crosses his face at my

wasn’t all,” he continues.

I will no doubt make

I had a mate, any of them

countless terrible ways.”

as I realize that all this

had been selfish, that he was some kind of

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didn’t want to be

like I am.

trying to protect me.

me were the

come up

realize it hurts

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

him.

as if he can’t quite believe

to do with the

I nod emphatically.

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

been doing these past

your fault, Emily,” Axel replies. “I played my part in it as

well.”

and for a moment,

can feel the new trust and depth

between us.

in my life

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