Alpha's Regret: The Seventh Time was Forever

Chapter 75 – I had no idea you two were together

Seraphine stopped walking so abruptly, her entire body going still as her eyes locked onto Corvine’s face with a focus that felt almost predatory in its intensity, and when she finally spoke, her voice was low but firm, carrying that quiet authority she never had to force.

"Let it out," she said, her gaze unwavering, as if she could already sense that whatever he was about to say was going to drag something ugly out of the past.

Corvine hesitated, and that hesitation alone was enough to make Seraphine’s pulse tick faster. He glanced away, then toward the car, as if the moving vehicle would make the conversation easier to handle.

"I’ll tell you on the way," he said carefully, like someone choosing his words before the battle even began.

She did not argue, but instead turned and moved toward the car in long, controlled strides, her mind already racing ahead of the moment. The night air felt cool against her skin, yet she barely registered it, because the tension in her chest had begun to coil tighter with every second.

The engine came alive with a low rumble once Corvine settled into the driver’s seat, and as soon as he pulled out onto the road, Seraphine angled her body toward him, her eyes studying his profile in the dim glow of the dashboard lights.

"Go on," she pressed, her tone calm but insistent. "Tell me what you know about Zane."

Corvine kept his eyes fixed on the road ahead, his fingers tightening slightly around the steering wheel as if the name itself required steadiness. "Do you remember the guy from the Quantum pack," he began slowly, "the one who set up the pack’s server before you went off to school in the city over a decade ago?"

The words floated toward her, but they felt distant, blurred by time. A decade was not a short stretch of memory, especially when so much had happened since then, and Seraphine’s mind tried to reach back into a haze of old faces and forgotten names.

"I don’t remember the face," she admitted, frustration creeping into her voice because she hated not remembering something that might matter now.

gentler this time. "So I had someone

photo, and the moment the image

her voice, which was rarely uncertain, shrank into something smaller, almost

had not even met Zane at her pack back then, not properly, not in any meaningful way, but during her first year in college, he had approached her like someone who

He had been a

teach her a lesson, and she could still hear the faint edge of threat hidden beneath his calm tone. He never acted on it

wondering

stopped after I started encrypting everything secretly." She swallowed, her gaze still glued to the image on the

exact question. "There’s more," he said, and there was something almost grim in the way he said it.

her curiosity sharpening despite the unease stirring inside her.

ex. Her name is

tension in her chest shifted into something else entirely. Information, especially juicy information, had a way of soothing her when chaos tried

urged, leaning back slightly but watching him

to her yet," Corvine admitted, "but I invited

quickly once she remembered the reason. "Leon asked me to assist with a surgery," she explained, her voice steady but carrying a quiet pride she did not bother to hide. "It was successful, which is why I got held

surprise and admiration written clearly

smile spread across Seraphine’s lips, the kind that came from accomplishment rather than ego. "Yes," she said, and the word carried the weight of long hours, quiet study, and