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.

me that maybe things could change, and I

But it’s impossible.

of me

Ronan is right.

find some way to

to me during those years I was held captive.

puts us into another position like what happened in

the first clue how

of Axel.

to brainstorm, and I

and I’ve been gone a long time.

if Axel hasn’t noticed and doesn’t come

Again.

I get to my

looks up at me. “I really needed that.”

time,” he says with a smile. But then

give you

That way if you need someone to listen,

chance that I might or might not be

a beat in a way it hasn’t since

I would actually really like that.”

then reels off his

immediately send him a text message so

up smiling after I say the words, because Ronan doesn’t realize

again, Emily,” Ronan says,

he really means

someone sees me for who I am, not who

or the things that’ve happened to

mistakes I’ve

a real friend

been able to figure out if he’s human or wolf. It’s

him, but it’s somehow muddled or disguised,

what I’m

think it’s probably just my own screwed-up

whatever the case, Ronan can’t ever know the