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

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

for the

and I think

after

don’t know where to go from here if he

to give in to whatever

his

about you at all, Emily,” he says gently, pulling me closer still, holding me properly now, his touch tender. “Well, it was, just not

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me,” I say, daring

embrace in a way I never

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

startled to realize I’ve never considered

perspective.

it makes total sense why

trying to save both of

quiet voice, and a hint of gratitude

that wasn’t all,” he continues. “I’ve

and I will no doubt make many more in

If I had a mate, any of them could easily threaten or

countless

I realize that all this time,

been selfish, that he

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didn’t want to be with damaged

like I am.

was trying to

rejecting me were the

up with.

realize it hurts that

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

him.

if he

what to do with the

I nod emphatically.

do is

been doing these

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

well.”

hug, and for a

and depth

between us.

be in my life forever.

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