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.

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.

to find some way to get rid of

out what really happened to me during those

my own stupidity or weakness puts us into another position like what happened

even have the first clue how to get rid

of Axel.

brainstorm, and I probably need help.

been

lucky if Axel hasn’t noticed

Again.

to my

as he looks up at

smile. But then he seems to become

something. “I could give

someone to listen, you don’t

the chance that I might or might not be

beat in a way it hasn’t

I would actually

then reels off his

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

end up smiling after I say the

again, Emily,” Ronan says, and it

really means

so refreshing that someone sees me for who I am, not who

or the things that’ve happened to

mistakes

be a

been able to figure out if he’s human or wolf.

can scent him, but it’s somehow muddled or disguised, so

what I’m

probably just my own screwed-up

case, Ronan can’t ever know the full