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?"

sit upright. Every muscle in her body ached, but she ignored it, her

the room, Daisy stood quietly. A sly, victorious smirk tugged at the corner of her lips, her eyes gleaming with satisfaction she did not bother

the storm tearing through her chest. "I had a son that night. If

lips, but the coldness in his eyes deepened, turning lethal. "You really think," he said cruelly, "that after tricking me

that night," he continued, his tone

cry, she lunged at him, her restraint snapping. Her hands clutched his neck, her

With brutal ease, he flipped her off him and

the floor hard, the impact rattling her bones as pain exploded through

Ravyn said coldly, towering over her, "but don’t forget I

up slowly, her limbs trembling, her mind mercilessly blank. "No," she whispered hoarsely. "Where

without hesitation. "I made sure she never saw the light of day. Her ashes were used to lay the

knees buckled beneath her weight, her vision blurring as the meaning of his words sank in. All this time, she had been raising a child who was

had given up everything for Bryan, including the antidote to

a child

If she had accepted the divorce earlier, this truth would have stayed buried forever. Ravyn

you," she said, her voice breaking for the first time. It was unusual for her to defend herself, but she thought that maybe,

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

all color. She regretted trying to explain it. Ravyn’s mind had been carved with what he

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

I did everything you accuse me of," she said faintly, tears finally shining in her eyes, "that child was