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

looking

for the

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

me after all.

here

to give in to

inside his

wasn’t about you at all, Emily,” he says gently, pulling me closer still, holding me

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daring to lift my hands and

his embrace in

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

startled to realize I’ve never considered things from

perspective.

total sense why he rejected

to save both of us from the inevitable

quiet voice, and a hint of

all,” he continues. “I’ve made

will no doubt make many

I had a mate, any of them could easily threaten

me in countless terrible ways.”

melts for him as I realize that all this time, I thought

had been selfish, that he was

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want to be

like I am.

trying to

for rejecting me were the least selfish

up

I say, and I realize it hurts that my mate

position, and there’s nothing

him.

if he can’t

do with

I nod emphatically.

do is

doing these past weeks.”

fault, Emily,” Axel replies. “I played my part

well.”

a moment, we

feel the new trust and depth of our relationship blooming

between us.

in my life

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