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.

get rid of that small flame of hope fluttering inside me that maybe things could change,

But it’s impossible.

part of me

Ronan is right.

find some way to get

really happened to me during those years I was

stupidity or weakness puts us into another position like what happened in

even have the first clue how to get

of Axel.

need to brainstorm, and I probably

I’ve been gone

noticed and doesn’t

Again.

to my feet.

looks up at me.

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

“I could give you my number, if

way if you need someone to listen, you don’t have

the chance that I might or might not

way it hasn’t since I was a

I would actually really like that.”

reels off his

my phone, and then immediately send him a text message so he’s got

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

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

really

sees me

was or the things that’ve happened to

the mistakes I’ve made.

be a real friend long term.

haven’t been able to figure out if he’s human or

but it’s somehow muddled or disguised, so

identify what

just my own

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