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

least not

Axel so aptly pointed out, I’m reliant

clothes and food and pretty much everything else in my life.

I would have to live in

another pack,

the monster within me.

live in fear

secret.

me, just like we were warned in

his status as a

block or stop any petition I might put

So I’m trapped.

was living in that isolated

so hard and fast and I

be weak. I won’t.

and I shove away from him and shift before I can allow myself to even contemplate what his

rolls them into his own. He’s squatting, watching me. And I don’t dare let myself–my wolf self–linger on the sight

I run.

fast over the terrain. The

man Ronan was a complete oddity. We don’t traipse much near the public parks and the state preserves don’t typically

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

Leah have already packed and left for Romania, I try not to

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

I honestly didn’t think

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

me how high his regard is for me,