Alpha's Regret: The Seventh Time was Forever

Chapter 143 – I lied to Ravyn

Damon had just come out of the woods, his body still warm from the run, muscles loose but alert, the familiar rhythm of the forest still echoing faintly in his system, when something unusual caught his attention.

At first, it was just movement, fast, frantic, but then he focused, and his brows pulled together as he recognized Daisy rushing toward him, her breathing uneven, panic written all over her face as she carried Bryan in her arms.

No, not carrying. Struggling to carry him.

Bryan’s body looked limp against her shoulder, his small frame barely moving, and that was all Damon needed to see before his instincts kicked in. He closed the distance between them in seconds, stepping in and carefully but quickly taking Bryan from her.

"Daisy, what’s going on?" he asked, his voice firm but edged with urgency as he adjusted the boy in his arms, trying to get a better sense of his condition.

"He’s sick again," Daisy said, her words tumbling out between breaths, her chest rising and falling too fast. "It came back. He was fine after I gave him the new serum when the old one ran out, but now he’s worse, way worse."

Damon didn’t waste another second. He turned immediately, moving fast toward the pack hospital, his steps long and purposeful as he carried Bryan securely. Daisy kept up beside him, her anxiety practically radiating off her.

"Shouldn’t we call Alpha Ravyn?" Damon asked as they moved, his tone practical even as his mind raced through possibilities. "He might know what to do. Or maybe we should take him to a human hospital just in case?"

"No, no," Daisy said quickly, shaking her head as fear flickered across her face. "I’ve heard most of our complicated cases can’t be handled in human hospitals. It won’t work."

She hesitated after that, her steps slowing just slightly as something else, something heavier, seemed to settle over her. She swallowed hard, her fingers clenching at her sides before she finally spoke again, her voice dropping.

my secret,

at her briefly, his expression unreadable

He nodded anyway.

at the back of his mind, steady and unshaken. His loyalty wasn’t

It was with Seraphine.

loyalty had been paying off in ways he couldn’t ignore. His stocks had started rising again just like she said they would, his position stabilizing in ways

no pressure, no secret that would ever make him turn against

ahead," he said, his voice steady as they reached the hospital

from Damon’s arms and moving him onto a bed, voices overlapping as they

her hands trembling before she reached for Damon and

of it clearly eating at her. "I told him I was the one who created the serum

lifted slightly, though he

in for too long. "When I kept pushing Ravyn to make me co-Luna, I really believed everything was under control. I didn’t even want to be Luna that badly, I just... I didn’t

push her away like that. I

breath,

can’t recreate what she made. They’ve tried, but it’s not the same.

though inside,

Karma.

really did have a way of circling

his tone measured. "Let’s wait and hear what the doctors say first," he said. "But what about the original serum? Do you have