Bad Love An Alpha’s Regret

Chapter 314

AXEL

I come across Emily just as she tosses the rabbit carcass aside.

A few times when she’s run off on me, I’ve scented traces of blood and assumed she’d been hunting.

The hunting instincts vary from wolf to wolf.

Some have very strong compulsions and regularly shift into wolf form to hunt. Some will even hunt in human form. I’d heard

Tobin was one such wolf.

Others, the compulsion isn’t as strong, so maybe they only hunt under a full moon.

As I watch Emily step over to the river to wash the blood from her hands and mouth, I wonder if she’s always had a high hunter drive, or if this is a new development since her captivity.

I can’t say whether she hunted in human form just now, or whether she had done so in wolf form like usual and had just shifted back when I came upon her.

It probably doesn’t matter in the scheme of things, but if it starts looking like it might be causing issues or getting out of hand,

then I might have to consider talking to Aaron about it.

one more thing about Emily I’ll have to monitor closely.

I can also pick up the quickly dispersing scent of some kind of male.

It’s weak, so I can’t tell if it was another wolf or human.

We’re not far from the public hiking trails the humans use around these parts, so there’s every possibility it was just someone passing by, and they had no interaction with Emily whatsoever.

my mate- mostly my wolf–feels a twinge of jealousy at the

thought–a reality–I

as my

bestow her a second mate, or anyone else she finds attractive enough

idea how I’m going to handle that.

won’t be around

vague notion of it is enough to set my

Now, I’m fuming.

helped by the fact that Aaron and I emerged from our frank

but his narrow–eyed look had spoken

to find

fact that Aaron had told me I couldn’t change my mind about rejecting Emily as my

don’t take his

really could kill me.

chance with the power of three Alphas at his beck and call, he’d quickly be able to put me down in a way no one

line has been drawn in

is off limits for good, and that’s the way it should

her and figure out which direction she’ll need

expression on my

Emily comes strolling along like she doesn’t have a care in the world.

straighten as I realize I don’t think I’ve seen her looking this at ease and

happened in the short amount of time she’s been gone to improve her mood

and my insides clench at the way the light immediately

actually afraid of me, and I didn’t even realize?

here?” I demand, the accusatory words slipping out before

you as my minder, but I don’t have to tell you everything I

insolent words only inflame my already