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

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

But it’s impossible.

that part of me is

Ronan is right.

some way to get rid of

really happened to me during those years I was

worse, before my own stupidity or weakness puts us into another position like what happened

don’t even have the first

and I

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

Again.

get to my

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

you want. That way if you need someone to listen, you don’t have to rely on the chance that I might

a way it

would actually really like

and then reels off his

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

smiling after I say the words, because Ronan

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

that someone sees me for who I am, not

or the things

mistakes

a real friend long term.

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