Bad Love an Alpha’s Regret by Elise Sinclair

Chapter 324

“What brought you out here today?” Ronan asks after the

relaxing silence has stretched on for a while.

“More of the same,” I reply, bringing my knees up and wrapping my arms around them.

“Family troubles,” he surmises with a nod.

“Worse than that,” I mutter, feeling my cheeks heat as I remember what took place in the underground training facility early.

The thing I’ve been running from all day.

“There’s this guy, kind of a friend of my brother-” I start, but Ronan gives a quick laugh.

Not a mean one, more one of understanding and sympathy.

“Isn’t there always?”

Like last time we spoke-the first time I met him-I find myself opening up.

Not telling him any specifics, just some generalizations so he

still has an idea of what I’m dealing with.

I’m not sure if that thing about it being easier to talk to

strangers is true, or if it’s something about Ronan himself.

How he calmly listens and doesn’t judge me.

“I don’t think you deserve to be treated like that. It sounds like you need to find some way to be rid of this guy while your

brother is away,” Ronan says.

The idea is equally appealing and abhorrent to me.

Deep inside me, my instincts-my wolf-are already mourning the idea of Axel being gone from my life.

He’s my mate.

Even though he rejected me, even though he’s dangerous to me, I can’t escape that fact.

get rid of that small flame of hope fluttering inside me that maybe things could change, and I could have my happily-ever-after.

But it’s impossible.

that part of me is

Ronan is right.

need to find some way

out what really happened to me during those years I was held captive.

us into another position like

the first clue how to

of Axel.

need to brainstorm, and I probably

and I’ve been gone a long

if Axel hasn’t noticed and doesn’t

Again.

get to my feet.

Ronan,” I say as he looks

smile.

“I could give you my number,

if you need someone

I might or

in a way

actually really

reels

and then immediately send him a text message so he’s got my

I better run,” I end up smiling after I say the words, because Ronan doesn’t realize

to see you again, Emily,” Ronan says,

he really means it.

so refreshing that someone sees me for who I am,

the things

the mistakes

be a

to figure out if he’s human or

I can scent him, but it’s somehow muddled or

what I’m

probably just my own screwed-up

whatever the case, Ronan can’t ever know the