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

Axel’s assessment of

this time, looking

the truth.

for a second and I

after

go from here

in to whatever thoughts are going

his

me properly now, his touch

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me,” I say, daring

in a way I never imagined I would

haunted. “I’m centuries old, and 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

realize I’ve never considered things from this

perspective.

it makes total sense why he rejected me.

both of us from the

quiet voice, and a hint

that wasn’t all,” he continues. “I’ve made

and I will no doubt

had a mate, any of them could easily threaten or use

countless terrible ways.”

for him as I realize that

had been selfish, that he was some

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didn’t want to

like I am.

trying to protect

the

come up

it hurts that my

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

him.

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

to do with the fact.

I nod emphatically.

thing I want to do is

doing these

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

well.”

a moment, we

the new trust and depth of

between us.

be in my life forever.

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