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 met

reality–I will

rejected Emily as my mate.

go find another mate, should the Moon Goddess decide to bestow her a second mate, or anyone else she finds

how I’m going to handle that.

I won’t be around to see

vague notion of it is enough to set my blood boiling.

Now, I’m fuming.

the fact that Aaron and I emerged from our frank talk

hadn’t even said anything, but his narrow–eyed look

find her

that Aaron had told me I couldn’t change my mind about rejecting Emily as my male–not that I ever

his

really could kill me. Well,

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

the line has been drawn

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

away from watching her and figure out which direction she’ll need to go in order to get

against a tree with a bored expression on my face, even

strolling along like she doesn’t have a

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

the short amount of time she’s

she sees me and my insides clench at the way the light immediately dims in

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

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

my minder, but I

inflame my already