Bad Love: An Alpha's Regret (Leah and Aaron) novel Chapter 323

Chapter 323 

EMILY 

For a second, I lay there, dazed and confused. 

I’ve never experienced anything like what just happened between me and Axel. 

But I’d barely come down from the impossible high when he got up and walked out, leaving me here feeling used and unwanted. 

The cold air registers on my cooling skin and I shiver, quickly dragging my clothes over to dress myself before someone can walk in here and see me like this. 

I thought what was happening between me and Axel was something special, something amazing. 

That just maybe, somehow, we could get past all the things between us and become mated after 

all. 

Except I can see now how lust clouded my mind and impaired my judgement. 

I feel shame and embarrassment storm through me. 

I can’t believe how I let myself lose control like that. With a man who barely tolerates me and would kill me the second he discovered the truth of what I’d become after the horrible experiments the old Roberts Alpha and his son Liam conducted on me. 

Axel had said I was required to begin my training again. 

I don’t completely disagree with him on that idea. I’d like to sharpen my skills once again, and the idea of training everyday-having some structure and routine, as well as something to look forward to-it’s actually very appealing to me. 

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I only wish I’d thought of it myself. 

Now, Axel and Aaron will probably take the credit for any improvements training might bring me. 

I’m going to do it, but I’m doing it for me, not them and not the pack. 

But I don’t want to start training now. 

I can’t. Not after what just happened. 

I feel raw and disgraced. 

As soon as Axel got to his feet, I could see the cold disgust swiftly returning to his features, but now it’s 

even worse. 

He obviously regrets what happened between us, and I can only wonder how much worse his treatment of me is going to be. 

I shouldn’t have done something so stupid like 

trying to use a kiss to distract him. 

I grew up around wolves, mated and otherwise. 

I know exactly how out of control a male wolf can get around his mate, especially when they’re not actually mated. 

Axel might have rejected me, but his instincts would still be pushing me toward him. 

I should’ve known getting so close to him-trying to trick him so I could win the challenge-would be dangerous. 

I leave the underground facility, avoiding the curious gazes of other pack members I pass here and there. 

It takes some sneaking and cleverness, but I manage to slip away so I can shift and run. 

Once I’m free, I let my mind go quiet and my instincts take over. 

I run and 

not 

Divorcio? -No es justo, Que hice mal? 

burn or I’m starting to tire. 

that 

muscles 

Solo me canse y quiero un juguete nues 

Eventually, I realize I’ve left Rathborn lands behind me, and I’m coming up on the same hiking trail where I met Ronan. 

I slow and then shift back, walking quietly through the trees. 

I scent a presence a second before I emerge through the woods onto a small clearing next to the river. 

Ronan is sitting there on a picnic blanket with a sketchbook in his lap and various pencils and other art stuff spread out around him. 

I deliberately crack a twig underfoot, and he turns his head at the sound. 

He smiles, and his eyes light up as soon as he sees 

My heart thumps painfully in my chest as I try to remember the last time someone actually looked happy to see me. 

“Hello there,” he says, before returning his attention to the page in front of him. “I was wondering if I’d see you again.” 

I walk over and stand at the edge of the picnic blanket. 

“I didn’t come here looking for you, if that’s what you think,” I reply sharply, but then internally wince at my automatic bitchiness. 

Why do I treat everyone like the enemy? 

Even people I actually like, or people I don’t even know?