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.

flame of hope fluttering inside me that maybe things could

But it’s impossible.

of me is

Ronan is right.

some way

he finds out what really happened to me

into another position

I don’t even have the first clue how to get rid

of Axel.

to brainstorm, and I probably need help.

I’ve been

Axel hasn’t noticed and doesn’t come looking

Again.

get to my

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

says with a smile. But

give you my number, if

if you need someone to

on the chance that I might or might not

beat in a way it hasn’t since I was

I would actually really like

grins and then reels off his cell

him a text message so he’s got my

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

you again, Emily,” Ronan says,

really means it.

sees me for who I am, not

things that’ve happened

mistakes I’ve made.

be a real

figure out if he’s human

can scent him, but it’s somehow muddled or disguised,

what I’m scenting.

probably just my

the case, Ronan can’t ever know the full truth