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.

in the last hundred years or so. People began

is standing in a bedroom across the hall from my own room.

the worst possible

the very same person who

in more danger than I

and run, and don’t stop running until I’ve

local National Forest where humans come to go hiking and

to go back–especially with Aaron leaving for

to

else to

no money of my

access the family’s vast finances, but the card hasn’t arrived in the mail yet, and I’m not even sure

about my fragile state of mind, there’s every chance he’s restricted

from the forest, coming out on a

I go and sit there, resisting the urge to cry as my thoughts spin in circles and I can’t come up with any answers.

kiss

wanted to surrender my body

is, even knowing now who

wolf–still longs for her mate.

tie me to such a

to deserve such

hope you don’t mind me saying, but it’s such

lovely

off to my left and look around to see

hair is like the gloss of a raven’s wing and his eyes are the most startling blue I’ve ever encountered.

since the old Roberts Alpha began his horrible experiments on me—so I can’t tell if the man is another

hands to indicate he means no harm, and I

blame me

abducted, 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