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.

though he rejected me, even though he’s dangerous to me, I can’t

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

But it’s impossible.

that part of me is pathetic.

Ronan is right.

find some way to

really happened to me during those years I was

my own stupidity or weakness puts us into another position like what happened in the training room.

have the first clue how to get rid of

brainstorm, and

and I’ve been gone a long time. I’ll be lucky if Axel hasn’t noticed

Again.

to my

Ronan,” I say as he looks up at me.

“I could give you my number, if you want. That way if you need someone to listen, you don’t have to rely on

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

would actually really like

reels off his cell number.

into my phone, and then immediately send him a text message so he’s got my

smiling after I say the words, because Ronan

Ronan says, and it seems like he really

someone sees me for who I am, not

was or the things

mistakes

can’t be a real friend long

out if he’s human or wolf. It’s like I can scent him, but it’s somehow muddled or disguised,