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

But it’s impossible.

that part of me is pathetic.

Ronan is right.

find some way to

happened to me during those years I

stupidity or weakness puts us into another

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

of Axel.

brainstorm, and I probably need

I’ve been gone a long

hasn’t noticed and doesn’t

Again.

get to

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

he says with a smile. But then

could give you my number, if

someone to

the chance that I might or

beat in a way it hasn’t since I was

would actually

and then reels off his

send him a text message so he’s got my

I say the words, because Ronan doesn’t realize how true the

again, Emily,” Ronan

he really means it.

refreshing that someone sees me

was or the things that’ve happened to

the mistakes I’ve

probably can’t be a real friend long

figure out if he’s human or wolf. It’s

scent him, but it’s somehow

can’t identify what I’m

think it’s probably just

the case, Ronan can’t ever know the full truth