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

time, looking

for the truth.

second and I think

after all.

don’t know where to go from here

then he seems to give in to whatever thoughts are

his

all, Emily,” he says gently, pulling me closer still, holding me properly now, his touch tender. “Well, it was,

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I say, daring to lift my hands and rest them

embrace in a way I never

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

to realize I’ve never considered things

perspective.

it makes total sense why he rejected me.

save both of us

in a quiet voice, and a

he continues. “I’ve made many

will no doubt make many more

a mate, any of them could

countless terrible

I realize that all this time, I thought

been selfish, that he was

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want to be with damaged

like I am.

trying to protect me.

for rejecting me were the least selfish ones he could

come up with.

I say, and I realize it hurts that my

there’s nothing I can do to help

him.

he whispers, as if he can’t

to do with

I nod emphatically.

do is

doing these past

wasn’t your fault, Emily,” Axel replies. “I

well.”

a hug, and for a moment, we stand there holding one

and depth of

between us.

in my life forever.

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