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.

Emily as my mate- mostly my wolf–feels a twinge of jealousy at the stray thought she might have

a thought–a reality–I will have to get used to.

as my mate.

decide to bestow her a second mate,

how I’m going to

be around to see it.

is enough to set my blood

Now, I’m fuming.

emerged from our

said anything, but his narrow–eyed

needed to find her right away.

track her, barely thinking about 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

don’t take his words lightly.

me. Well,

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

has been drawn in the sand.

good, and that’s

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

a bored expression on my face, even though inside I’m an

along like she doesn’t have a care in

as I realize I don’t think I’ve seen her

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

sees me and my insides clench at the way the light immediately dims in her eyes, being replaced by something too close to fear for my

afraid of me, and I

the accusatory words slipping out before

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

inflame my already