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.

territory. Seraphine, barely twelve at the time, followed behind, having lived within those borders

visited often. When Seraphine turned eighteen, during the chaos and sacred madness of a moon festival, Ravyn forced himself on her. The moon bore witness, and the forest heard her

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 forced upon her,

wanted her blood again. Even after she had left the pack, and after her what they cruelly did

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Centenary Pack, she had sworn her feet would never cross its borders

hope left to cling to. The irony burned. To

that he felt no guilt. He had never wanted a child to bind them together, especially not her

given him Bryan. A son, and in the pack, he had

leave me no choice. I will send

threatening but Seraphine did not flinch. Rather,

ended at state lines. New York was not the world, and Seraphine knew that better than

always been her hunger for knowledge. She understood things

never afraid. Love had weakened her once,

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

she said quietly.

as he turned and stormed out,

house and Corvine immediately moved to help Edward repair the damaged gate while Seraphine turned toward Humphrey. Her voice softened. "Dad... do you think I’m being

kind." His jaw hardened. "You should have killed