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.

even though he’s dangerous to me, I

hope fluttering inside me that maybe things could change, and I

But it’s impossible.

that part of me is

Ronan is right.

find some way to get rid

what really happened to me during those

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

don’t even have the first clue how to get

brainstorm, and

and I’ve been gone a long time. I’ll be

Again.

to

he looks up at me. “I really needed that.”

he seems to become unsure about something. “I could give you my number, if you want. That way if you need someone to listen, you don’t have

way it hasn’t since I was

would actually really

reels off his

and then immediately send him a text message

run,” I end up smiling after I say the words, because Ronan doesn’t realize how true the run part

Emily,” Ronan says, and it seems like he really

me for

things

the mistakes

be a real

haven’t been able to figure out if he’s human or wolf. It’s like I can scent him, but it’s

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