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.

a

reality–I will have to get

rejected Emily as my

Moon Goddess decide to bestow her a second

how I’m

I won’t be around to

is enough

Now, I’m fuming.

that Aaron and I emerged from our frank talk to realize Emily had run off again.

his narrow–eyed look had

needed to find

her, barely thinking about the fact that Aaron had told me I couldn’t change my mind about rejecting Emily

take his words lightly.

probably really could kill me.

his beck and call, he’d

been drawn in the sand.

good, and that’s the way it

away from watching her and figure out which direction she’ll need to

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

Emily comes strolling along like she doesn’t have a care

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

have happened in the short amount of time she’s been gone

my insides clench at the way the light immediately dims

possible she is actually afraid of me, and I didn’t even

I demand, the accusatory words slipping out before I can control them.

defiantly. “Aaron may have appointed you as my minder, but I don’t have to tell you everything

words only inflame my already hot