Bad Love An Alpha’s Regret

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.

dangerous

can’t get rid of that small flame of hope fluttering inside me that maybe

But it’s impossible.

that part of me is pathetic.

Ronan is right.

way to

to me

before my own stupidity or weakness puts us into another position

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

need to brainstorm, and I probably need help.

late, and I’ve been gone a long time. I’ll be lucky if Axel hasn’t noticed and doesn’t come looking for

Again.

get to my

he looks up at me. “I

then he seems to become unsure about something. “I could give you my number, if you want. That way if you need someone

heart skips a beat in a way it hasn’t since I was

would actually really

reels off his cell number.

him

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

was nice to see you again, Emily,” Ronan says, and it seems like he really means

that someone sees me for who I am,

was or the things that’ve happened to me.

the mistakes I’ve

be a real

figure out if he’s human or wolf. It’s like I