Bad Love An Alpha’s Regret

Chapter 317

I barely sleep the rest of the night.

The next morning, Axel unlocks the door carly, but I don’t immediately get out of bed.

I’m not sure if I have the energy or will to face the day.

I wonder what Axel will do if I turn the tables on him and refuse to leave my bedroom, so whether he locks the door or not becomes pointless.

Around mid–morning, there’s a knock on the door.

I don’t answer, even though I doubt it’s Axel.

He wouldn’t knock. He would just barge right in.

The door swings open a few seconds later and Jessica walks in, carrying a tray with what looks like breakfast on it.

“Good morning,” she says in a soft voice, sending me a hesitant smile, as if unsure of her welcome.

Oh great, now even Jessica is tiptoeing around me.

“Does the entire pack know I’m a nutjob who needs to be locked up in her room?” I ask, pulling a blanket over my head.

I hear the sounds of Jessica setting the tray onto the nightstand next to my bed, then a second later the mattress dips and Jessica tugs the blankets away from my face.

that,” she says, and now her expression is more sympathetic and

as I

at the selection of food Jessica has brought me and realize

doesn’t help that I missed dinner last night.

and settle it on my lap as Jessica

your appetite,” she says as I start

bother telling her that when you get abducted and held captive, eating becomes about survival, especially if you don’t know if or when the

eat whether I

what’s happening to me is

frowns and

own good,”

more like something she’s reciting, rather than something she actually believes.

got home,” I reply, trying to choose my words carefully. “But I don’t deserve to be locked in my room like I’m some badly behaved

mouth closed after saying it’s not fair, because actually, I do kind of sound like

and I can see that she does care about what happens to me.

my best

what he says. And maybe I haven’t always been Leah’s biggest fan,

head and stare down at my partially eaten breakfast,

have attacked Leah…at least not where there were witnesses.

understand everything I went through

instead of answering Jessica’s statement. “I can’t be locked up in this bedroom all the time. I need to shift. I need to run. If I

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