Alpha's Regret: The Seventh Time was Forever

Chapter 205 – You should be our son-in-law

Kylie couldn’t stop thinking about it, the question lingering quietly in the back of her mind. How had Seraphine not known something like this? It didn’t make sense at first, not when it was something so deeply tied to her own bloodline.

But the more she thought about it, the clearer the answer became, settling into her chest with a bitter kind of understanding.

Chuck and Noelle Dion.

Seraphine’s biological parents had been so wrapped up in their favoritism, so blinded by their affection for Daisy, that they had neglected their own daughter in ways that ran far deeper than anyone could see on the surface.

Important things that should have been passed down with care and pride, had simply been ignored.

Left unsaid. Left unknown.

And Seraphine had been the one to pay the price for that silence.

Still, none of that mattered right now, not when she finally had something real to hold onto.

Even as she prepared to return to the pack for a few days, her mind was already racing ahead, clinging tightly to this new piece of information like it was the first solid ground she’d found in years. For the first time, her search for her child didn’t feel completely hopeless.

"I was there the day you were born," Kylie began softly, her voice carrying both memory and certainty as everyone at the table turned toward her. "I saw it with my own eyes... the mark you inherited from your mother."

Seraphine stilled, her attention locking completely onto her.

"Your mother told me it came from her own mother," Kylie continued, her tone steady but filled with quiet emphasis, "and that it had been passed down again from your grandmother’s mother before her."

mean... my birthmark isn’t just random?"

"Exactly. It runs through your maternal line. Anyone who carries that mark is connected to your

way. Instead, they spread through Seraphine like warmth, like

suddenly

before, briefly, but doubt had crept in and pushed the thought away, convincing her it wasn’t reliable enough to follow. Now, hearing it confirmed, feeling the certainty in Kylie’s voice, everything

voice softer now, filled with emotion she didn’t try to hide. "Thank

would have known sooner if you hadn’t kept the truth from us," she replied.

the room dimmed slightly

expression hardening as he leaned back in his chair. "I still can’t understand how he became that heartless," he murmured,

different in his eyes now.

you for choosing to disobey your Alpha when he was wrong. As an Alpha myself, I know exactly what kind of consequences you risked by doing that. If Ravyn had found out..." He didn’t finish the sentence,

lips curved into a faint smile, but it didn’t carry pride. If anything,

"Alpha Humphrey—"

Dad," Humphrey cut in immediately, his tone

smile from Corvine this time. "Dad," he corrected himself, though the word came with a quiet pause, like he was still getting used

his voice pulled everyone’s attention

then," he admitted, the words blunt but not cruel, just real. "All I wanted was for

slightly on the

wasn’t some moral awakening that stopped me," he continued, his voice lowering. "It was the baby’s cries. That’s all. That’s what

faintly. "So no... I’m not any better than Ravyn. I’m just as guilty for even considering