Alpha's Regret: The Seventh Time was Forever

Chapter 10 – I will never help Daisy

Seraphine stopped halfway up the staircase, her hand tightening around the banister as the weight of memory dragged her backward.

Daisy had grown up in her parents’ house. She had been a sickly child, fragile, pale, constantly hovering between life and death.

Each time the doctors shook their heads, it was Seraphine’s blood that saved her, again, and again.

A year older and utterly an only child, Seraphine had embraced Daisy as the younger sister she never had, filling the void left by her own solitude with loyalty and care.

But love, she had learned too late, did not guarantee trust. Her mother had doted on Daisy endlessly, smothering her with concern, indulgence, and affection, often at Seraphine’s expense.

And Daisy had been clever, deceptively so. With tearful eyes and carefully chosen silences, she painted Seraphine as cruel, impatient, heartless.

Every scratch became an accusation. Every misunderstanding, a calculated performance.

In the end, Daisy won. She claimed the sympathy of everyone, pack members, elders, even Seraphine’s own parents.

Inside her own home, Seraphine was branded ruthless, unfeeling, and dangerous. That reputation drove her straight into Kylie’s orbit and, eventually, into Ravyn’s territory.

At the time, they all lived within the Centenary Pack. Ravyn was still young then, not yet Alpha.

Seraphine, barely twelve at the time, followed behind,

festival, Ravyn forced himself on her. The moon bore witness, and the forest

had always wanted her as a daughter-in-law, and they used the truth like a weapon, twisting circumstance until it bent in their favor. Marriage was

Even after she had left the pack, and after her

voice steady and cold as iron, "unless you can bring my daughter back from the grave, I

had sworn her feet would never cross its borders again. That oath had been written in grief and sealed with

hope left to cling to. The irony burned. To

twisted cruelly in his chest, was that he felt no guilt. He had never wanted a

in the pack, he had declared it openly: a son was better than

Ravyn said coldly, his jaw tightening, "then you leave me no choice. I will send word across the

and threatening but Seraphine did not flinch. Rather, her eyes were

evenly. Ravyn’s influence ended at state lines. New York was not the world, and Seraphine

She understood things far beyond her years. Politics, history, pack laws, hidden

had weakened her once,

and she would do whatever it took to reclaim her peace and

turned back. "But be careful," she said quietly. "The evil that men do does not

Anger clouded his reason as he

and Corvine immediately moved to help Edward repair the damaged gate while Seraphine turned toward Humphrey. Her voice softened. "Dad...

deeply. "Heartless? No. You are too kind." His jaw