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.

me, even though he’s dangerous to me, I can’t escape that fact.

get rid of that small flame of hope fluttering inside me that maybe things could change, and I

But it’s impossible.

part of me

Ronan is right.

to find some way to get

out what really happened to me during those years I

own stupidity or weakness puts us into

the first clue how to get rid

and I probably need help.

late, and I’ve been gone a long time. I’ll be lucky if

Again.

get to

say as he looks up at me. “I really

give you my number, if you want. That way if you need someone to

a way it hasn’t since

I would actually really like

then reels off his

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

I better run,” I end up smiling after I say the words, because Ronan doesn’t

says, and it seems

so refreshing that someone sees me

the things that’ve happened to

the mistakes

probably can’t be a real friend

he’s human or wolf. It’s like I can scent him,