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’s dangerous to me, I can’t escape that fact.

hope fluttering inside me that maybe things could change, and

But it’s impossible.

of me

Ronan is right.

some way to get rid of

to me during those

before my own stupidity or weakness puts us into another position like what happened in the training room.

I don’t even have the first clue how

need to brainstorm, and I

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

Again.

get to my feet.

say as he looks up at me. “I

could give you my number, if you want. That way if you

a beat in a way it

actually really like

then reels off

and then immediately send him a text message so

end up smiling after I say the words,

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

that someone sees me for who I am, not

was or the things that’ve happened to me.

mistakes

be a real friend

out if he’s human or wolf. It’s like