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.

of me that wants 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 else.

reality–I will have

rejected Emily as my mate.

means she’s free to go find another mate, should the Moon Goddess decide to bestow her a second mate, or anyone else she finds attractive enough to be

idea how I’m

won’t be around to see

is enough

Now, I’m fuming.

not helped by the fact that Aaron and I emerged from our frank talk to

said anything, but his narrow–eyed

to find

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, he

his words

me. Well, he could try.

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

been

good, and that’s the way

and figure out which direction she’ll need to go in order to get back to

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

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

I realize I don’t think I’ve seen her looking this

short amount of time she’s been gone to improve her mood so drastically?

insides clench at the way the light immediately

she is actually afraid of

you been doing out here?” I demand, the accusatory words slipping out before I can control them.

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

insolent words only inflame my