Alpha's Regret: The Seventh Time was Forever

Chapter 154 – I’m a she-wolf, not an angel

Corvine stepped out of the car, the door closing with a soft thud behind him, but Seraphine didn’t move right away, her fingers still curled loosely against her lap as she stared ahead, her mind already piecing things together without needing to hear a single word of whatever Ravyn was saying outside.

Damon had told her enough earlier, and honestly, she didn’t need confirmation to understand what this was about, because there was only one person in this world who could make Ravyn stand there looking stripped of his pride like that, and that was Bryan.

Bryan was the only reason Ravyn would ever lower himself this much.

Outside, Corvine tried to keep his composure intact, even as Ravyn blocked his path, his presence tense and unmoving like a wall that refused to budge. "Ravyn, move," Corvine said, his voice tight, like he was holding back more than just irritation, but Ravyn shook his head immediately, refusing without hesitation.

"Please," Ravyn said, and there was something unfamiliar in his tone, something raw and unguarded that didn’t belong to the Alpha Corvine had known for years. "Talk to her for me. Bryan doesn’t have much time left. She has to help."

For a second, Corvine just stared at him, disbelief flickering across his face because the man standing in front of him barely resembled the ruthless Alpha he remembered.

If Corvine hadn’t witnessed everything from the beginning with his own eyes, maybe he would have hesitated, maybe he would have considered making an exception, but he had been there through it all, had seen how Seraphine had been treated, how she had been broken piece by piece, and now this same man had the nerve to stand here asking for her help like none of that had ever happened.

Corvine let out a quiet, humorless breath, his gaze hardening. "You told me to kill her child," he said, his voice dropping lower with every word, the accusation cutting through the air. "And now you think you can just show up here like this?"

Ravyn’s jaw tightened, his pride clearly fighting to rise, and for a moment, it looked like he wanted to argue back, wanted to throw the blame somewhere else, maybe even call Corvine out for carrying out that order, but none of that came out, because right now, none of it mattered more than Bryan.

instead, the words heavy and unfamiliar, carrying a weight

a brief second, Corvine wondered if

knew never apologized,

process it any further, Ravyn did something that completely knocked the ground out from

to

else could have, because for an Alpha, kneeling wasn’t

something done lightly, and seeing Ravyn like this left Corvine momentarily speechless, his mind struggling to catch up with what was unfolding right in

a fight

felt as he turned and walked back toward the car, leaving Ravyn

every word Ravyn had said, every action that had followed, and Seraphine listened in silence, her expression unreadable, her emotions locked away so tightly that nothing

she opened the door and stepped

with quiet certainty as she walked toward Ravyn, her posture straight, her presence calm but cold in a way that made the air around her feel heavier. When she stopped in front of him, her gaze dropped to where he knelt, her eyes void of

cutting clean through the tension. "And now you want me to save yours?" She

with something close to regret. "I should never have hurt our child. You can do anything you want to me, anything at all, but Bryan... he’s

her gaze still as cold as

knew who cared for it, knew who stayed up through the night, who sacrificed sleep and comfort just to make sure it was okay, and no matter what Daisy had filled Bryan’s head

my fault," he admitted, his voice quieter now. "I shouldn’t have let Daisy influence him like that, I shouldn’t have allowed any of it, but please, Sera,