Alpha's Regret: The Seventh Time was Forever

Chapter 3 – where is my son?

"Mom, I’m glad you’re back," a child’s voice rang out, sharp with relief and fear. "This vile woman wanted to take me away."

"Don’t worry, little champ," another voice answered gently, firm with authority. "No one can take you away from us. Your father would never allow it."

The voices reached Luna Seraphine long before she could open her eyes.

They drifted in and out of her consciousness, echoing through her mind like fragments of a dream she did not want to remember.

When her lashes finally fluttered open, the familiar wooden beams of the pack house ceiling came into view, recognizable, yet distant, as though she were seeing them through water.

How she had gotten here, she had no idea. The last clear memory burned vividly in her mind: her knees giving way, her body collapsing as the maternity test result slipped from her trembling fingers and hit the floor.

But that made no sense. No, her heart thundered painfully against her ribs. She had been pregnant after that night. The night Ravyn forced himself on her.

The night that bound her to him in a marriage she always desired.

She carried that pregnancy for nine long months, enduring the pain, the nausea, the exhaustion, and every other discomfort that came with it.

She went into labor, screamed, bled. She heard the sharp, unmistakable cry of a newborn before the world went black and exhaustion dragged her under. She had given birth so what exactly was going on?

Alpha Ravyn’s cold, merciless eyes were the first thing she saw clearly. They bored into hers with unrestrained fury. "How dare you try to steal my son from me?" he growled. "Do you have a death wish?"

Beta Corvine stepped forward, helping her sit upright. Every muscle in

quietly. A sly, victorious smirk tugged at the corner of

her voice steady despite the storm tearing through her chest. "I had a son that

really think," he said cruelly, "that after tricking me into bed that night, I would allow you to keep

deliberate, deadly. "Daisy was also in labor that night," he continued,

her restraint snapping. Her

brutal ease, he flipped her off him

hard, the impact rattling

said coldly, towering over her, "but don’t forget I am still the Alpha. My strength is

slowly, her limbs trembling, her mind mercilessly

without hesitation. "I made sure she never saw the

buckled beneath her weight, her vision blurring as the meaning of his words sank in. All this time, she

up everything for Bryan, including the antidote to his rare congenital

without hesitation for a child

her with devastating clarity. If she had accepted the divorce earlier, this truth would have

defend herself, but

Ravyn snapped. "There’s proof. You paid a waiter to spike my drink. If not for you, Daisy would have been Luna. You should have known better than to cross

of all color. She regretted trying to explain it. Ravyn’s mind had been carved with what he chose to believe, and Seraphine’s words

man you loved, and another to discover that the same man had murdered your child. There were no words for that kind

did everything you accuse me of," she said faintly, tears finally shining in her