Bad Love An Alpha’s Regret

Chapter 315

EMILY

Axel is infuriated, and I think he must have seriously heightened senses to be able to smell Ronan on me when we barely touched for more than a few seconds.

“No one!” I yell angrily–though that anger is fed by a healthy dose of fear now that I know who Axel really is.

“Tell me the truth, Emily!” he growls menacingly.

“Fine!” I yank harder, and this time he releases me, and I stumble a step. But he crowds closer to me until I’m backed up against a tree with no means of escape.

“It was just some guy,” I lie, hoping he can’t somehow tell I’m not telling him the truth. “I tripped over on the trail up there, and he helped me up. That’s all. It was just some stranger. We barely even spoke!”

Axel stares at me, eyes hard, glittering and threatening.

I half think he’s going to run off and track down Ronan to ask him for his version of events.

However, Axel doesn’t do any of those things.

Instead, he moves back just enough to give me room to breathe.

Still, I don’t know whether he believes me, or knows I’m lying.

“Shift, now. We’re heading back to the mansion.” Somehow, his already intimidating stare becomes even more threatening. “And don’t even think about running off on me again. You won’t like the consequences.”

Part of me wants to defy him.

I wish I was brave enough–like Ronan had said–to ignore his threats, to shift and run and escape him and my brother and their stupid suffocating rules.

not

not

I’m reliant upon Aaron for a

and food and pretty

I would have to live in the human world, and

the Council to join another

still be hiding the monster

in fear that someone might

secret.

and come for me, just like we were warned in

the Council now with his status as a wolf with the power of three

would simply block or stop any petition I might put to the Council.

So I’m trapped.

as effectively as I was living in that isolated house all

up so hard and fast and I choke

won’t be weak. I won’t. Never

shift before I can allow myself to even contemplate what his expression might

and rolls them into his own. He’s squatting, watching me. And

I run.

and fast over the terrain. The scents

that man Ronan was a complete oddity. We don’t traipse much near the public parks and the state preserves don’t typically see too many visitors this

bother to shift until I’m inside and in my room. I’ve been gone most of the day and it’s almost dark by the time I walk back into the house.

Leah have already packed and left

was my own fault I wasn’t here to say goodbye, and Aaron probably

honestly didn’t think

to take off. And because it is our own jet, he easily could have asked to postpone for an hour or two so I

how high his regard is for me, and where I am on his life priorities.