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 escape

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

But it’s impossible.

that part of me is

Ronan is right.

way to get rid

finds out what really happened to me during those years I was

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

the first clue how to get rid of

and I

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

Again.

I get to my feet.

he looks up at

number, if you want. That way if you need someone to listen, you don’t have to rely

a beat in a way it hasn’t

actually really like

then reels off his cell number.

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

smiling after I say the words, because Ronan doesn’t realize how true

nice to see you again, Emily,” Ronan says, and it seems like he really means it.

that someone sees me for who

things that’ve happened to me.

mistakes

probably can’t be a

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