Bad Love An Alpha’s Regret

Chapter 313

He holds out his hand and I take it, shaking.

His grip is firm and cool, and there’s something almost comforting about it.

“I’m Emily,” I tell him in return.

His smile deepens. “That’s a pretty name.”

I laugh at this.

Ronan might be too charming for his own good.

“I think it’s pretty basic myself, but you’re welcome to your opinion.”

He gives a quick, friendly laugh.

“So, Emily, what has you out here looking so down on a day like today?”

I take a slow breath, working out how I can explain without sounding crazy.

“Something bad happened to me, something traumatizing,” I begin, choosing my words carefully. “Something that went on for a long time. I finally got out just recently, and now my family are treating me like I’m fragile and broken. Maybe because I am.

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But I don’t want to be. And I can’t stay with my family, I can see that. It’s just not going to work. They’ll hate me when the realize the truth of everything that happened to me. Except I don’t know what to do, and don’t have anywhere else to go.”

Ronan nods, listening with sympathy and understanding.

And I realize it’s something no one has bothered to do since I got home.

assume they know what happened to

I did have that moment with Axel

wasn’t

first in line to kill me if or

actually being extremely strong and brave. You survived that bad thing you went through. And maybe these might seem like empty

ever stopped to consider

to me.

right. Just not in the

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I can do

makes it

I’d choose not to ever go through that, because I can’t exactly say

it puts me in greater danger from people

there are benefits to the new me, if I decide

sincere voice. “In a way that no one in your family can probably see. But I get the feeling that’s also

has actually seen me- in a

just

so caught up in their own drama–and I was gone for ten years,

mean in a spiteful way, I just mean in an oblivious

kind of way.

loss if they can’t see any of that. You’re strong. You’ve proven that

I’m speechless.

know what to say, but

to him, emotion catching in my

he gets

a week,” he says.

smiling, because I hope I do see him again.

to my feet, and we stand

I step forward and