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.

hope fluttering inside me that

But it’s impossible.

that part of

Ronan is right.

some way to get rid of Axel.

what really happened to me during those years I was

or weakness puts us into another

even have the first

of Axel.

to brainstorm, and I probably need

late, and I’ve been gone a long time.

hasn’t noticed and doesn’t come looking

Again.

to

say as he looks

time,” he says with a smile. But then he seems

about something. “I could give you my

That way if you need someone

I might or might not be out here.”

a beat in a way it hasn’t since I was a teenager.

actually really like

grins and then reels off his cell number.

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

I say the words,

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

he really means

so refreshing that someone sees me for who I

the things that’ve happened

the mistakes I’ve

can’t be a real friend long term.

able to figure out if he’s human

but it’s

identify what I’m

just

case, Ronan can’t