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

agreeing with Axel’s

why?” I whisper this time, looking up at

for the

second and I think maybe he’s not going

after all.

don’t know where to go from here if he can’t be truthful with

to give in to

inside his

pulling me closer still, holding me properly now, his touch tender. “Well, it was, just not in the way you’re

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it to me,” I say, daring to lift my hands and rest them

in a way I never imagined

I live a dangerous existence. And I’m immortal. What good would it do to have a mate for

startled to realize I’ve never

perspective.

makes total sense why

was trying to save both of us from the

and a hint of gratitude crosses his face at my

he continues. “I’ve

and I will no doubt make many more in the

mate, any of them could easily threaten or use her

countless

I realize that all this time, I

had been selfish, that he was some

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want to be

like I am.

was trying

me were the least selfish ones

come up

it hurts that my mate has

there’s nothing I

him.

as if he can’t quite believe

what to do

I nod emphatically.

want to do is

been doing these past weeks.”

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

well.”

a moment, we

can feel the new trust and depth of our relationship blooming

between us.

be in

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