Bad Love An Alpha’s Regret

Chapter 312

EMILY

As soon as Axel confirms he is in fact Axiel Mercier, the legendary vampire slayer, I turn and run, no idea where I’m going, just knowing I need to get out of the house.

I had told the doctor I wanted to tell Aaron something–which was partially true–I’d decided in the bathroom I needed to tell Aaron I didn’t care about Axel rejecting me, that I didn’t want to be his mate after all.

How true those thoughts had turned out to be.

I’d gotten as far as the hallway when I’d heard Aaron shouting at Axel about him rejecting me, and then paused outside the door as Axel had told Aaron there were things about him that Aaron didn’t know.

Dangerous things.

It wasn’t my fault their voices had carried so clearly.

And okay, maybe I shouldn’t have been eavesdropping.

But after Axel’s reply, my curiosity had gotten the better of me, so I’d loitered, holding my breath, wondering what could be so terrible and dangerous that Axel had apparently rejected me for my own good.

A

Would turn out to be none

other than a notorious, immortal slayer.

Axiel Mercier is like the human bogeyman for young wolves. We got old scary bedtime stories about him.

Be a good wolf or Axiel Mercier will come for you.

A lot of wolves don’t even believe he actually exists.

years or so. People began to believe that maybe he’d been killed.

the literal living proof is standing in a bedroom across the hall from my own

possible scenario

has assigned as my guard to protect me and look after me is the very same

more danger than I

shift and run, and don’t stop running until I’ve left Rathborn pack

local National Forest where humans come to

want to go back–especially with

what to

have nowhere else to

have no possessions, no

to access the family’s vast finances, but the card hasn’t arrived in the mail yet, and I’m not even sure I have full access without Aaron’s

about my fragile state of mind, there’s every chance he’s restricted my access to make it harder

shift and emerge from the forest, coming

bench nearby overlooking a small river, so I go and sit there, resisting the urge to cry as my thoughts spin in circles and I can’t come up with

wanted to kiss Axel

to surrender my body

is, even knowing now who he really is,

my wolf–still longs for her

Moon Goddess tie me to such a man?

I do to deserve such

saying, but it’s

lovely look so sad?”

the voice just off to my left and look around to see a tall man standing

the gloss of a raven’s wing and

since the old Roberts Alpha began his horrible experiments on me—so I can’t

harm, and I realize I’m probably staring at him

me for not

held and tortured for ten years, then the man who was meant to be my mate rejected me, and turned out to not be a simple man at all, but the biggest threat to my