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

I whisper this time, looking up at him, searching his

the truth.

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

after

know where to go from here if he can’t be truthful

seems to give in to whatever thoughts

inside his

says gently, pulling me closer still, holding me

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me,” I say, daring to lift my hands and

enjoying how I’m in his embrace in a way I never imagined I would

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

never considered things from this

perspective.

it makes total sense why he rejected

to save both of us from the inevitable pain.

tell him in a quiet voice, and

he continues. “I’ve

no doubt make many more in

mate, any of them could

in countless terrible

realize that all this time, I thought Axel’s

selfish, that he

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who simply didn’t want

like I am.

was trying to protect

rejecting me were the least selfish

come up with.

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

position, and there’s nothing I

him.

he can’t quite believe it,

do

I nod emphatically.

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

been doing these past weeks.”

replies. “I

well.”

me into a hug, and for a

new trust and depth of our

between us.

in my life forever.

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