Alpha's Regret: The Seventh Time was Forever

Chapter 101: Chapter 101 - I’ll deal with him

Just before the quiet in the room could stretch long enough to swallow the last traces of Voren’s prayer, a sudden sneeze burst from Seraphine with startling force, the sharp sound cutting through the silence so abruptly that it made his entire body tense.

Voren’s eyes flew open at once, every nerve in his body reacting instantly as he stared at her.

Her chest began rising and falling with harsh urgency as air rushed violently back into her lungs, her body dragging in breath after breath in deep, uneven gasps as though she had been drowning moments earlier and had only just broken the surface.

The sight struck him with such overwhelming relief that his shoulders sagged as if an enormous weight had been lifted from them, and the tight pressure that had been strangling his chest loosened enough for him to finally breathe again.

"She’s breathing," he murmured under his breath, the words leaving him in a long exhale that carried away the worst of his fear.

For several seconds he simply watched her, making sure her breathing continued, because some stubborn part of him refused to fully relax until he saw that the life returning to her body would not vanish again.

The moment he became certain that she would survive, the fierce urgency that had ruled his actions a few minutes earlier gave way to the colder instincts that governed most of his decisions.

Voren rose quickly from the side of the bed and headed straight for the door, moving with determined urgency as he pulled it open so abruptly that he nearly crashed into Leon, who had just arrived in the hallway outside.

Leon blinked in surprise when he saw Voren standing there.

"Mr. Ashkael... you took Sera?" Leon asked in a startled voice, the confusion in his expression deepening as he took in the tension radiating from the chairman.

as he stepped past him. "No one must know about this," he

what was happening. "What happened to her?" There were lip stick stains on Voren’s lips he dared not mention, hoping he hadn’t forced himself

poisoned," Voren answered quickly, wasting no time on unnecessary explanations. "I found

eyes widened in alarm. "Poisoned?

the men she turned down tonight," Voren replied coldly, the faint irritation in his voice revealing exactly what he thought about that

expression hardened further. "I’ll

everything he was hearing, but before he could ask

the one who saved her life,"

calm certainty in his tone left

without another glance and disappeared down

encounter because he had never seen the normally controlled chairman look that disturbed before, but the concern he felt for Seraphine quickly pushed

spotted her sitting up on the bed, her body still fighting to

to her side and placed his hands carefully on her shoulders, helping her remain upright while her breathing slowly

and the instant she recognized Leon beside her, a visible wave of relief softened the tension

here," she said weakly, her voice rough from the strain her

slowly returned. The last thing she remembered was a dream where her wolf was telling her goodbye but she could feel her

by a different power from the pack. The faint lingering scent of wolfsbane still clung to the air,

Voren’s scent lingered throughout the room, strong

thought crept into her mind. Was he

look him in the eye

was that she had sometimes used Voren’s partnership as a way to provoke Ravyn and