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.

rid of that small flame of hope fluttering inside me that maybe things could change, and I could have my happily-ever-after.

But it’s impossible.

of me

Ronan is right.

to find some way to

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

before my own stupidity or weakness puts us into another position like what happened

don’t even have the first clue how to get

of Axel.

need to brainstorm, and I probably

been gone a

Axel hasn’t noticed and doesn’t come

Again.

get to

as he looks up at me. “I

says with a smile. But

about something. “I could give you my

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

on the chance that I might or might not be

a beat in a way it hasn’t since

would actually really like

grins and then reels off

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

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

again, Emily,” Ronan says, and it

he really means it.

sees me for who I am,

things

mistakes I’ve made.

can’t be a real friend long term.

figure out if he’s human or wolf.

I can scent him, but it’s somehow muddled

what I’m

just

case, Ronan can’t ever know the