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.

fluttering inside me that maybe things could change, and I could have

But it’s impossible.

of me

Ronan is right.

way to get rid of Axel.

out what really happened to me during those

us into another position

have the first clue

of Axel.

brainstorm, and

and I’ve been gone a long

hasn’t noticed

Again.

to

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

says with a smile. But then he seems to become

give you my number, if

That way if you need someone to listen,

that I might or might not be out here.”

way it

I would actually

grins and then reels

then immediately send him a text message so he’s got my number as well.

I say the words, because Ronan doesn’t realize how true the

see you again, Emily,” Ronan

he really means

so refreshing that someone sees me for who I am, not

things

mistakes I’ve

a

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

him, but it’s somehow

can’t identify what

probably just my own screwed-up sense.

case, Ronan can’t ever know the full truth