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Bad Love: An Alpha's Regret (Leah and Aaron) novel Chapter 310

Chapter 310 

AXEL 

Aaron stalks across the hall into the room he gave me to use

I’m assuming he doesn’t want to leave Emily for long in case she tries to run or decides she’s going to pick up where she left off with Leah

I have a better understanding now of why Emily hates Leah so much

The old Roberts Alpha sounds like he was a twisted bastard

I think Aaron would maybe have more sympathy and understanding for Emily if he knew some of what she went through, but it’s not my place to tell him

I won’t betray Emily’s confidence like that

Aaron and Leah leaving for the Old Country for a few days, or a week is probably for the best

It’ll give Emily some time to adjust without Leah here to constantly remind her of what she went through

However, I get the sense Emily wasn’t telling me everything

Like maybe she told me a sanitized version, and there was much 

more to it

Probably things that were even more horrible than what she spoke of

It’s clear I need to get to the bottom of it all

Preferably before we have more instances like today

There are mounting mysteries about Emily that make me think all isn’t as it seems with her

Something is bubbling under the surface

Something volatile and wild

Maybe something more than just the abduction and captivity, and even the pack wars before that

And for Emily to start healing properly, I think we need to get out in the open whatever is going on with her

Maybe I rejected her as my mate, but not because I wanted to

Not because I thought there was anything wrong with Emily

The more I get to know her, the more I can see why the Moon Goddess paired us together

We both have our dark sides, but Emily is brave and fierce and has the kind of spark I’ve rarely come across in all my long centuries of life

protect her

Because it would be better for her in the long run

Because being matedboundto someone like me would be nothing but a curse

Besides, I’m immortal and Emily isn’t

So, what

I’m supposed to mate her and love her and then get to live one short lifetime with her

And then maybe go rogue when my mate dies and spend the rest of eternity missing somethingsomeoneI can never get back

Who in their right mind would sign up for that

What I do is too important

I keep the balance

I keep the peace between wolves and vampires

I am the line that separates them

I assumed that’s why the Moon Goddess never gave me a mate before, because if I lost her and went rogue or died myself, then who would uphold the ancient treaty any longer

I don’t understand why this has happened here and now with Emily

But one thing is certain

Even if I can’t mate her, I can still protect her like she’s mine

I can still make sure she’s safe and well before I have to move on to whatever next rogue vampire or wolf I’m required to hunt down

“Tell me exactly what happened,Aaron says, crossing his arms and taking up a belligerent stance

The day we came home from the Council Hall after Ryker and his pack attacked, the day you found out Emily was still alive,I begin, trying to keep my voice even and free of emotion since I don’t know what Aaron is thinking about all this right now. I was the one who found Emily out in the woods. As soon as I saw her, I knew. I felt the pull down to my bones. Down to my soul.” 

Aaron’s eyes narrow. And what? Right then and there you rejected her? When you knew what’d happened to her? When you could see how fragile she was? Did you even stop to think what rejecting your mate would do to my already broken sister?” 

He’s shouting by the time he finishes those rapidfire questions

I did this for Emily’s sake,I tell him calmly

I will not feel bad for what I did to protect my mate

Even though it meant protecting her from myself

I thought things would be simple when I agreed to come to Rathborn pack lands with Aaron

I thought I would be able to wrap up whatever unrest was happening between wolves and vampires in Montana, and then move on like I always do

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