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.

what happened to me, and what they should do

have that

wasn’t

be first in line to kill me if or when the truth

You survived that bad thing you

definitely different, but I don’t think I’ve ever stopped to consider that

to me.

right. Just not in

www

were literally torture, but I can do

saying that makes it all

not to ever go through that, because I can’t exactly say what I’ve gained makes it all

in greater danger from people like

to the new me, if I decide to look at it from a different perspective.

way that no one in your family can probably see. But I get the feeling that’s also because you don’t want

actually seen me- in a

they just not care?

they simply so caught up in their own drama–and I was gone for ten years, so they’ve all moved on

I don’t mean in a spiteful way, I

kind of way.

any of that. You’re strong. You’ve proven that to yourself. You don’t need to prove

I’m speechless.

to say, but I’m

I say to him, emotion catching

he gets

times a week,” he says. “Maybe I’ll see you around again

because I hope I do see him

to my feet, and we stand there looking at each

I step forward and hug