Bad Love An Alpha’s Regret

Chapter 316

“Don’t even think about locking me in here, Axel,” I tell him, my voice low and threatening.

Axel crosses his arms and looks on dispassionately, not intimidated by me in the least.

Why would he be?

He’s an impossibly powerful slayer who is reportedly hundreds of years old.

I’m probably nothing more than a gnat to him, small, annoying and inconvenient.

“You’re meeting up with strange men in the woods,” Axel replies, eyes narrowing. “You repeatedly run off no matter how many times we tell you not to, and you attacked your own Luna. You’ve brought this on yourself, Emily. Don’t act like it’s a surprise.”

“I didn’t meet up with anyone!” I shout in frustration. “I told you; it was just some random stranger. And I explained about Leah! I thought you understood.”

“Just because I understand, doesn’t mean I condone your behavior,” Axel replies in a harsh voice. “Aaron left me in charge, and I don’t plan to let him down. Your selfish actions. affect the pack whether you know and care or not. I’ll do

whatever it takes to keep you in line, Emily.”

With that, Axel turns on his heel and strides out of the room.

I rush after him, but he slams the door closed between us before I can get there.

A second later, that’s when I hear the lock clicking into place from the outside.

“No!” I yell furiously. “You can’t do this!”

a blur of yelling and crying, but Axel doesn’t come back, and doesn’t open the door.

French doors and

leaving anyway, but I’m not that far gone that I can’t see how

I have nowhere else to go, and Axel would probably just lock me in the cellar or some kind of windowless room,

that makes me shudder, and the fight goes out of me, leaving me calmer, but no less upset.

bed and cry into my pillow for a

the dream

the halls of the house, but everything is dusty and feels abandoned, like I’ve been left here alone and

warm and inviting, candles glowing softly and

is there, and my heart leaps at seeing

Axel says. “I’ve been waiting for you.”

and aloof. He’s smiling, warm and

be wary, but I can’t remember

catches me up against him, holding me

I’ve ever

ever

now I finally

me and will protect me and never let anything bad happen to me again.

before I can say anything, he swoops in and kisses me.

how he kisses me–devours me, really, like a drowning man gasping

deep and consuming and everything a kiss should

storms my body, and for a heady moment I think that if he claims me right now,

kiss, Axel suddenly pulls back to

him, suddenly