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!”

but Axel doesn’t come back, and doesn’t open the door.

through the French doors and climb down from the balcony, but those doors have also been

about simply breaking the glass and leaving anyway, but I’m not that far gone that I

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

of being trapped like that makes me shudder, and the fight goes

cry into my pillow for a

when the dream starts.

aimlessly through the halls of the house, but everything is dusty and feels abandoned, like I’ve been

library and the room is warm and inviting, candles

leaps at seeing

“I’ve been waiting for you.”

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

me thinks I should be wary, but I can’t

against him, holding me close and safe

I’ve ever wanted.

ever

now I finally

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

him, but before I can say

like a drowning man

deep and consuming and everything a kiss

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

as I’m losing myself to the kiss, Axel suddenly pulls back to look

him, suddenly