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.

says, and now her expression is more sympathetic and

bitterly as

at the selection of food Jessica has brought me and

doesn’t help that I missed

on my

appetite,” she says as I

bother telling her that when you get abducted and held captive, eating becomes about survival, especially if you

to eat whether I had any appetite or

think what’s happening to me is okay,” I say

and glances away.

was for your own good,” Jessica

reciting, rather than something she actually

been a bit…erratic since I got home,” I reply, trying to choose my words carefully. “But I don’t deserve to be locked in my room like

it’s not fair, because actually, I do kind of sound

I can see that she does

my best friend,

Alpha, Emily. Even if he is your brother, we can’t go against what he says. And maybe I haven’t

stare down at my partially eaten breakfast, shame heating my cheeks.

I shouldn’t have attacked Leah…at least not where there

I went

spent ten years locked away,” I say 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 can’t

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