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

why?” I whisper this time, looking up at him,

the truth.

a second and I think maybe

after

from here if he can’t be truthful

in

his head.

wasn’t about you at all, Emily,” he says gently, pulling me closer still, holding me properly now, his touch tender.

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say, daring to lift my hands and

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

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 myself in the process. How would I go on living and upholding the peace between wolves and vampires if

I’ve never considered things

perspective.

sense why he rejected

of

a quiet voice, and a hint of gratitude crosses

he continues. “I’ve made

lifetime, and I will no doubt make many more in the

a mate, any of them could easily

countless terrible ways.”

for him as I realize that all this time, I

to reject me had been selfish, that he

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person who simply didn’t want

like I am.

was trying to protect me.

for rejecting me were the least

up with.

I say, and I realize it hurts

and there’s nothing I can do to help

him.

he

to do

I nod emphatically.

to do is make your life harder,

doing these past

Axel replies. “I played my part in

well.”

for a moment, we stand there holding one

and depth of our

between us.

in my life

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