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.

can’t get rid of that small flame of hope fluttering inside me that maybe things could change, and I could have

But it’s impossible.

part of me

Ronan is right.

find some way to

finds out what really happened to me during those years I was

us into another position like what happened in the

the first clue how

of Axel.

and

been gone a long

noticed and doesn’t come looking

Again.

I get to

for listening, Ronan,” I say as he looks up at

with a smile. But then

give you

need someone to listen, you

might or might not be

heart skips a beat in a way it hasn’t since

I would actually really like that.”

and then reels off his

enter it into my phone, and then immediately send him a text message so

the words, because

see you again, Emily,” Ronan

he really

me for

things that’ve happened to me.

mistakes

a real friend long term.

out if

but it’s somehow

identify what I’m

think it’s probably just my own screwed-up

can’t ever