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."

pulled together, her thoughts catching up all at once. "You mean... my birthmark isn’t just random?" she asked slowly, her voice laced with disbelief. "It’s something

through your maternal line. Anyone who carries that mark

they spread through Seraphine like warmth, like light breaking through something that had

over her so suddenly it almost made

and pushed the thought away, convincing her it wasn’t reliable enough to follow. Now,

you," she said, her voice softer now, filled with emotion she didn’t try to

"You would have known sooner if you hadn’t kept the truth from us," she replied. "And knowing this doesn’t change what

the room dimmed slightly at the

still can’t understand how he

was something different in his eyes now.

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, but the weight of

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

"Alpha Humphrey—"

cut in immediately, his tone

though the word came with a quiet pause, like he was still getting used to it. Then his gaze dropped slightly, his expression turning more serious. "I’d be lying if

honesty in his voice pulled everyone’s

but not cruel, just real. "All I wanted was for that child to

slightly on the

voice lowering. "It was the baby’s cries.

faintly. "So no... I’m not any better than Ravyn. I’m just as