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 of

this time, looking up at him,

the truth.

and I think maybe

after

here if he can’t

then he seems to give in to whatever

his

you at all, Emily,” he says gently, pulling me closer still, holding me properly now, his touch

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me,” I say, daring

in

his gaze, one that’s sad and haunted. “I’m centuries old, and in all the time, the Moon Goddess 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

I’ve never considered things from

perspective.

makes total sense why

of us

sounds very lonely,” I tell him in a quiet voice, and a hint of gratitude crosses his

wasn’t all,” he continues. “I’ve

long lifetime, and I will no doubt make

mate, any of them could easily threaten or use her

me in countless

as I realize that all this

been selfish, that he was some

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who simply didn’t want to

like I am.

was trying

rejecting me were the least

up with.

I say, and I realize it hurts that my mate has

in such a terrible position, and there’s

him.

do?” he whispers, as if he can’t quite believe it, or doesn’t

what to do

I nod emphatically.

I want to do is make your life harder,

been doing these past

“I played my part in it

well.”

into a hug, and for a moment, we stand there holding one another.

new trust and depth of our relationship

between us.

won’t be in my life

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