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

inside me that

But it’s impossible.

of me is

Ronan is right.

to find some way to get

happened to me during those years

weakness puts us into another position like what happened in

the first clue how to get rid of

brainstorm, and I

be lucky if Axel hasn’t noticed and

Again.

to

say as he looks up at me. “I

my number, if you want. That way if you need

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

I would actually really like

reels

into my phone, and then immediately send him a text message

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

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

refreshing that someone sees me

the things that’ve happened to

the mistakes

be a real friend

or wolf. It’s like I

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