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 assessment

time, looking up at

the truth.

I think maybe he’s not

me after

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

seems to give in to whatever

inside his

Emily,” he says gently, pulling me closer still, holding me properly now, his touch tender.

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explain it to me,” I say, daring to lift

embrace in a way I never imagined I would

once granted me a mate. I understood why. I live a dangerous existence. And I’m immortal. What good would it

to realize I’ve never considered

perspective.

total sense why

of us from the inevitable pain.

I tell him in a quiet voice, and a hint

he continues.

long lifetime, and I will no doubt make many more

had a mate, any of them could easily threaten or use her

me in countless

I realize that all this

to reject me had been selfish, that he was

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simply didn’t want to be with damaged goods

like I am.

he was trying

rejecting me were the least selfish ones he could

come up

realize it hurts

a terrible position, and there’s nothing

him.

whispers, as if he can’t quite believe

to do with the fact.

I nod emphatically.

last thing I want to do is make your life harder,

been doing these past weeks.”

“I played my part in

well.”

into a hug, and for a moment, we stand there

the new trust and depth

between us.

won’t be in my life

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