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

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

But it’s impossible.

that part of me

Ronan is right.

need to find some way

happened to me during those years I was held captive.

us into another

don’t even have the first clue how to

and I

gone a long time. I’ll be

Again.

I get to

looks up at me. “I

my number, if you want. That way if

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

would actually

reels off his cell number.

then immediately send him a text message so

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

says, and it seems like he

me for who I

or the things that’ve happened

the mistakes I’ve made.

be a real

human or wolf. It’s like

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