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.

and ascended, his parents relocated to the outskirts of the territory. Seraphine, barely

sacred madness of a moon festival, Ravyn forced himself on

They 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

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

and cold as iron, "unless you can bring my daughter back from the

was no cruelty in her tone. Only finality. The moment she left the Centenary Pack, she had sworn her feet would never cross its borders again.

to cling to. The irony burned. To be at her mercy now,

was that he felt no guilt. He had never wanted a child

given him Bryan. A son, and in the pack, he had declared it openly: a son was

tightening, "then you leave me no choice. I will send word across the packs and throughout New York. No one will

but Seraphine did not flinch.

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

greatest advantage had always been her hunger for knowledge. She understood things far beyond her

never afraid. Love had weakened her once, stripped her bare, and left her vulnerable, but not

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

took two steps away, then paused and turned back. "But be careful," she said quietly. "The evil that

he turned and stormed

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

are too kind." His jaw hardened.