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.

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

as I push

Jessica has brought me

help that I missed dinner last night.

tray and settle it on my lap

least you haven’t lost your appetite,”

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

I had

possibly think what’s happening to me is

and glances away.

said it was for your own good,” Jessica says, and it

more like something she’s reciting, rather than

bit…erratic since I got home,” I reply, trying to choose my words carefully. “But I don’t

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

see that she does care about what happens to me.

is my best friend, after

is your brother, we can’t go against what he says. And maybe I haven’t always been Leah’s biggest fan, but attacking your

and stare down at my

least not where there were

doesn’t understand everything I went through

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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