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.

small flame of hope fluttering inside me that maybe things could change, and I could

But it’s impossible.

that part of

Ronan is right.

need to find some way to get rid of Axel.

to me during those years I was held captive.

us into another position like what happened in

is, I don’t even have the first clue how to get rid

of Axel.

need to brainstorm, and

late, and I’ve been gone a

lucky if Axel hasn’t noticed and doesn’t come looking

Again.

get to my

listening, Ronan,” I say as he looks up

a smile. But then he seems

something. “I could give you

if you need someone to listen, you don’t

I might or

a way it hasn’t since

actually really like

then reels

then immediately send him

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

to see you again, Emily,” Ronan says, and it seems

he really means

refreshing that someone sees me for who

or the things that’ve happened to me.

the mistakes I’ve

Ronan probably can’t be a real friend long

out

can scent him, but it’s somehow muddled

can’t identify what I’m scenting.

think it’s probably just my own screwed-up sense.

Ronan can’t ever know the