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

trouble agreeing with Axel’s assessment of

why?” I whisper this time, looking up at

for the

and I think maybe he’s

after

from here if

in to

his head.

me closer still, holding me properly now, his touch tender. “Well, it was, just

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say, daring to lift my hands and

in his embrace in a way I never imagined

immortal. What good would it do to have a mate for a single, mortal lifetime, only to lose.

realize I’ve never considered things from

perspective.

it makes total sense why

trying to save both of us from

tell him in a quiet voice, and a hint

continues. “I’ve made many enemies

will no doubt make

mate, any of

me in countless terrible

as I realize that all this time,

to reject me had been selfish, that

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want to be with damaged goods

like I am.

he was trying to protect me.

were the least selfish ones he could

up with.

realize it

in such a terrible position, and there’s nothing I

him.

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

do with the fact.

I nod emphatically.

to do is make your

these

replies. “I

well.”

for a moment, we stand there holding one

the new trust and depth

between us.

won’t be in my life

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