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 that

But it’s impossible.

part of me is pathetic.

Ronan is right.

way to

really happened to me

my own stupidity or weakness puts us into another

don’t even have the

of Axel.

and I probably

late, and I’ve been gone

lucky if Axel hasn’t noticed and doesn’t come looking

Again.

get to my

looks up at me. “I really needed

smile. But then he

about something. “I could give

if you need someone

I might or might not be out

a beat in a way it hasn’t

I would actually

and then reels off his cell number.

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

up smiling after I say the words,

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

he really means

so refreshing that someone sees me for who I

or the things

mistakes I’ve

be a real

out if he’s

I can scent him, but it’s somehow muddled

identify what

just my

case, Ronan can’t ever know the full