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

trouble agreeing with Axel’s assessment

I whisper this time, looking

for the

for a second and I think

me after

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

to give in to whatever thoughts are going

inside his head.

pulling me closer still, holding me properly now, his

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explain it to me,” I say, daring to

I’m in his embrace in a way I never imagined I would be.

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 and then maybe lose myself in the process. How would I go on living

realize I’ve never considered

perspective.

sense why he

both of

very lonely,” I tell him in a quiet voice, and a hint of

all,” he continues.

will no doubt

I had a mate, any of them could

in countless terrible ways.”

melts for him as I realize

to reject me had been selfish,

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want to

like I am.

was trying to protect me.

the least selfish ones he could

come up with.

it hurts that my

terrible position, and there’s nothing I

him.

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

do with

I nod emphatically.

want to do is make your life

these past

Axel replies. “I played

well.”

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

new trust and depth of

between us.

in my life

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