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.

to claim Emily as my mate- mostly my wolf–feels a twinge of jealousy at the stray thought she might have met up with someone

thought–a reality–I

rejected Emily as my

Moon Goddess decide to bestow her

no idea how I’m going to handle that.

I won’t be around

of it is enough

Now, I’m fuming.

from our

even said anything, but his narrow–eyed look had

find her right

the fact that Aaron had told me I couldn’t change my mind about rejecting Emily as my male–not that I ever would–and if I did so,

his words lightly.

really could kill me. Well, he

a fight. But there’s every chance with the power of three Alphas at his beck and call, he’d quickly be

has been drawn in the sand.

and that’s the way

she’ll need to

with a bored expression on my face, even though inside I’m an inferno of conflicted tensions.

doesn’t have a care

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

amount of time she’s been gone to improve her mood

insides clench at the way the light immediately dims in her eyes,

of me, and I

you been doing out here?” I demand, the accusatory words slipping out

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

insolent words only inflame