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 me.

I whisper this time, looking up at him, searching

the truth.

and I think maybe he’s not going

after all.

to go from here if he

seems to give in to whatever thoughts are going

his

still, holding me properly

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to me,” I say, daring

his embrace in a way I never imagined I would be.

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

to realize I’ve never

perspective.

it makes total sense why he rejected me.

both of us from

quiet voice, and a hint of gratitude crosses his face at

that wasn’t all,” he continues. “I’ve

no doubt make many

of them could easily threaten

in countless

as I realize that all this time, I

had been selfish, that he was some

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person who simply didn’t want to

like I am.

was trying to protect me.

rejecting me were the least selfish ones he

come up

say, and I realize it hurts that my mate has been

and there’s nothing I can do to

him.

he can’t quite

do with

I nod emphatically.

is make

these past

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

well.”

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

trust and depth of our relationship blooming

between us.

in my life forever.

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