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.

inside me that maybe

But it’s impossible.

that part of me

Ronan is right.

need to find some way to get rid

to me during those

worse, before my own stupidity or weakness puts us into another position like what happened in the

have the first clue how to

of Axel.

brainstorm, and I

and I’ve been

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

Again.

get to

say as he looks up at

time,” he says with a smile. But then he seems to

something. “I could give you my

need someone

I might or

in a way it hasn’t since I was a teenager.

actually really

then reels

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

up smiling after I say the words, because Ronan doesn’t realize how true the run part actually

you again,

really means it.

that someone sees me for who I

was or the things

mistakes

be a real friend

to figure out if he’s

it’s somehow muddled or

identify what

probably just

whatever the case, Ronan can’t ever know the