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 that

least not today.

pointed out, I’m reliant upon

and pretty much everything else in my

in the human world,

another pack, but

still be hiding the

in fear that

secret.

come for me, just like we

status

would simply block or stop any petition I might

So I’m trapped.

as I was living in that isolated house all those years.

fast and I choke on them.

weak. I won’t. Never

shove away from him and shift before I can allow

up my clothes and rolls them into his own. He’s squatting, watching me. And I

I run.

over the terrain. The scents I encounter are all

parks and the state preserves don’t typically see too many visitors this far out. Why

don’t bother to shift until I’m inside and in my room. I’ve been gone most of the day and it’s almost

I find out Aaron and Leah have already packed and left

my own fault I wasn’t here to say goodbye, and Aaron probably viewed it as me being

didn’t think about it.

our own jet, he easily could have asked to postpone for an hour or two so I could be here to

simply left, and it feels like Aaron is telling me how high his regard