Bad Love An Alpha’s Regret

Chapter 308

I can see Axel is confused by what I’ve just said.

“How can Leah be the reason you were abducted? She was just a child,” Axel says, but his voice isn’t judgmental or critical, just

curious.

I think then he might actually listen to me and understand where I’m coming from.

“The Roberts Luna was killed,” I tell him, the memories of that time coming back to haunt me.

Really, those memories never left me. It’s not like I had much else to think about during those ten years I was locked up.

“And then both my parents were killed,” I continue, a lump rising in my throat. “The number of wolves who’d already died was getting higher and higher, and other packs were beginning to get pulled into the conflict. The Council decreed that peace needed to be reached. They decided in favor of the Rathborn pack and told the old Roberts Alpha he needed to hand Leah over to be Aaron’s future bride. Of course, it wasn’t like Rathborn pack came away from it much better off. My brother had to sacrifice his life and his true love, Jessica.”

“I still don’t see what that has to do with you,” Axel says, brow creasing in confusion.

glance away from him, trying not to let the memories overwhelm me.

I’d barely been old enough to be fighting in the war myself.

I’d only just turned seventeen, but after my parents were killed, I swore I would get my revenge.

Alpha used me

his best fighting wolves slaughtered the other pack members I was with, and abducted me. It was a massacre. And all the bodies they burned. All

sorry you went through that, Emily,” Axel says in a low voice, and I can tell he means it, they’re not just empty words.

only reason I was there, the only reason I was alive, was because the Rathborn pack had his daughter. It was like some kind of twisted trade in his mind. Aaron had Leah, so the Alpha Roberts had me. He would

twice as

to feel like I can’t breathe again, and

to the feeling

To the torture.

only

withhold food, or beat me, or make me sleep in a

hope my pack was treating Leah as badly, because it was what she deserved..

Roberts pack had brought nothing but death and misery to the Rathborn

others would just leave her alone and forget about her, so maybe the old Roberts Alpha would do

course, eventually Leah had grown up and then Aaron had actually married her.

the Roberts Alpha had come to tell me–raging about it- I’d refused to

some way to get

appeal to the Council and

when the old Roberts Alpha had really

his research, and the experiments had

stomach churn, and can’t let my thoughts go

don’t have to tell me