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.

he’s dangerous to me, I can’t escape that

fluttering inside me that maybe things could change, and I could have my happily-ever-after.

But it’s impossible.

of me

Ronan is right.

to find some way

happened to me

puts us into another position like what happened in the training

even have the first clue how to get rid of

brainstorm, and I probably need

long time. I’ll be lucky if Axel hasn’t

Again.

get to my

he looks up at me. “I really

But then 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 to rely on the chance that I might or might not

a beat in a way it hasn’t since I was

I would actually really like

then reels

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

after I say the words, because

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

sees me for who I am, not who

things that’ve happened to

the mistakes I’ve

probably can’t be a real friend long

able to figure out if he’s human or wolf. It’s like I can scent him,