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

I whisper this time, looking

for the truth.

looks torn for a second and I think maybe he’s not going to

me after all.

where to go from here if

then he seems to give in to whatever thoughts are

inside his head.

at all, Emily,” he says gently, pulling me closer still, holding me

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I say, daring

how I’m in his embrace in

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

realize I’ve never

perspective.

sense

was trying to save both of us

voice, and a hint of gratitude crosses his

continues. “I’ve

my long lifetime, and I will no doubt make many

any of

in countless

realize that all this time, I thought

been selfish, that he was

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didn’t want to

like I am.

he was trying to

for rejecting me were the least

come up with.

I realize it hurts that my mate has

and there’s nothing I can do to

him.

he whispers, as if he can’t quite believe it,

to do with the

I nod emphatically.

is make your life harder,

been doing these past

Emily,” Axel replies. “I

well.”

a moment, we stand

the new trust and depth of our relationship blooming

between us.

won’t be in my

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