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!”

and crying, but Axel doesn’t come back, and

rush to the window, thinking I can go through the French doors and climb down from the balcony, but those

that far gone that I

to come back eventually since I have nowhere else to go, and Axel would probably just lock me in the cellar or some kind of windowless room, making it even harder for me to

fight goes out of

pillow

when the

the house, but everything is dusty and feels abandoned, like I’ve been left here alone and forgotten for decades.

the library and the room is warm and

is there, and my heart leaps at seeing him, at

“I’ve been waiting for

Axel isn’t cold and aloof. He’s smiling, warm and welcoming.

should be wary,

against him, holding me close and safe in

all I’ve

I’ve ever needed.

now I finally have it.

who loves me and will protect me and never let anything

him, but before I can say

he kisses me–devours me, really, like a drowning man gasping for air.

and consuming and everything

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

Axel suddenly pulls back to

I ask him, suddenly