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

But it’s impossible.

of

Ronan is right.

find some way to

he finds out what really happened to me

puts us into another position like what happened in

I don’t even have the first clue how to

of Axel.

and

and I’ve been gone

if Axel hasn’t noticed and doesn’t

Again.

to my feet.

listening, Ronan,” I say as he looks up at me. “I really needed

he says with a smile. But then he seems to

give you my

someone

might or

a beat in a way it hasn’t since I

I would actually really

grins and then reels off his

immediately send him a text message

end up smiling after I say the words,

nice to see you again,

really means

refreshing that someone sees me

was or the things

the mistakes I’ve

be a real friend long term.

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

it’s somehow muddled or

can’t identify what

think it’s probably just my own screwed-up

Ronan can’t ever