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

this time, looking up

for the truth.

for a second and I think maybe he’s

me after

go from here

he seems to give in to whatever thoughts

inside his head.

me closer still, holding me properly now, his touch tender. “Well, it was,

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to me,” I say, daring to lift

enjoying how I’m in his embrace in a way I

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

I’ve never considered things from

perspective.

makes total sense why he

of

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

that wasn’t all,” he continues.

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

any of them could easily

me in countless

I realize

me had been selfish, that he was some

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simply didn’t want to be

like I am.

trying to

for rejecting me were the least selfish ones he

come up with.

realize it hurts that my mate has been

terrible position, and there’s nothing I can do

him.

whispers, as if he can’t quite

do with the fact.

I nod emphatically.

want to do is make your life harder, and

doing these past

Axel replies. “I played

well.”

a moment, we stand there

the new trust and depth of

between us.

be in

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