Alpha's Regret: The Seventh Time was Forever

Chapter 194 - Sera, the pack needs you.

The moment Voren stepped out of the elevator and into the hallway leading toward his office, he found Pete already waiting there with a large gift box balanced carefully in his hands, and judging by the excitement spread across his face, Voren could tell he had already looked inside and probably spent the last several minutes trying not to lose his mind over whatever was in it.

"Sir, a gift from Miss Walker," Pete said, excitement lifting his face.

Voren lifted a brow slightly as his eyes moved toward the box, curiosity flashing briefly across his face before disappearing just as quickly beneath his usual calm expression.

"What’s inside?"

Pete swallowed before carefully opening the box, and the second he looked down at what was inside, his mouth dropped open all over again like he still could not believe any of it was real.

"Domaine de la Romanée-Conti La Tâche and Henri Jayer Cros Parantoux," Pete said, still staring at the bottles like they might vanish if he blinked too hard. "Sir, I think Miss Walker likes you."

Voren’s face stayed calm, but there was the faintest tightening around his eyes.

He knew exactly what Seraphine was doing.

She was trying to repay him as quickly as possible so she could erase the debt between them and move on, but there was no chance he was going to let her do that so easily when he had already decided he wanted something far more valuable than a few rare bottles of wine.

"Send it back," Voren said without hesitation, Pete blinked at him, fully convinced for a moment that he had heard wrong.

"What?"

him, his face unreadable and his voice

he had never opened the box at all. "Okay," he said carefully. "But what exactly do

as he continued walking toward his office. "She’ll

hurried after him, still

that? Miss Walker seems way too generous to just

she’ll call," he repeated with complete confidence.

than an hour after the gift had

crossed his face before he answered, because he had known

he picked up, sounding confused and irritated at the same time. "I can send something else

let out a low scoff. "A thank-you gift?" he repeated. "Is my

immediately when she heard his tone. He sounded irritated, like somebody who had already been in a terrible mood long before she called,

keep her voice calm even though she was already starting to

in her chair. "We had an agreement. I back you up, and when the time comes, I ask for a favor in

Seraphine so fast that it felt like ice water had been poured straight down her

life? Or are you going to ask me to go easy on Ravyn? Which one is it? Because I would rather know now than sit around waiting

because owing people meant giving them power over her, and she had spent too many years fighting to get her life back under control to willingly

knowing where she stood, and more than anything else, she hated feeling trapped

on the other end of the line before

favor I want yet, but what

her lips together tightly, still unable to decide whether that answer made