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.

my mate- mostly my wolf–feels a twinge of jealousy at the

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

Emily as my

Moon Goddess decide to bestow her a second mate, or

idea how I’m going to handle

won’t be around to

the vague notion of it is enough to set my

Now, I’m fuming.

I emerged from our frank talk to realize

but his narrow–eyed look

to find

change my mind about rejecting Emily as

don’t take his

really could kill me. Well, he

with the power of three Alphas at his beck and call, he’d quickly be able to put me down in a way no one else had managed in

has been drawn in

is off limits for good, and that’s

out which direction she’ll need to go in order to get back to Rathborn lands.

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

along like she doesn’t have

seen her looking this at ease and carefree

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

way the light immediately dims in

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

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

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

only inflame my already