Alpha's Regret: The Seventh Time was Forever

Chapter 231 - Luna Seraphine has protection

Sleep had become a stranger to Daisy.

She lay in the dark with her eyes open and her mind going at full speed, turning the same thoughts over and over, the way your tongue keeps finding a sore tooth even when you know it’s only going to hurt.

Damon’s report about Seraphine’s success in the city had hit her somewhere tender and deep, not because it surprised her exactly, but because success like that meant visibility. And visibility meant exposure. And exposure was the one thing Daisy absolutely could not afford.

What was really keeping her awake, though, was that Seraphine had been standing right in front of Ravyn and hadn’t said a word about everything she knew about Daisy. She’d had every reason to, even the perfect opening, and yet, she’d let it pass.

The more Daisy turned that over, the more certain she became that it wasn’t mercy. It wasn’t even restraint. It was patience. Seraphine was building toward something, arranging pieces in an order Daisy couldn’t quite see yet, and that patience was scarier than any explosion would’ve been.

There was only one conclusion. Seraphine had to be stopped before whatever she was building came together.

Daisy’s mind went quickly to a name, someone inside the pack, who owed her, and would move without too many questions. Quickly, she sent the mind link before she had time to second-guess herself, her claws lengthening slowly against the sheets.

’Contact rogue assassins. Seraphine has to be gone tonight.’

The response came back fast, and the hesitation inside it made her claws press harder. ’Tonight? Who treats the paralyzed pack members if she’s gone?’

through mind link, flat, and final. The voice of someone who’d run the numbers. ’She’s served her purpose. Raymond can take it from where

letting everything sink in before adding, ’Banished. Everything

sit exactly one beat before adding another reminder. ’And think about Bryan. Ravyn is training him for Alpha. You want

just long enough to feel real, and then it

until he’s old enough, and then Ravyn’s role doesn’t matter anymore.

destroyed her and turned it into the very thing that had made Ravyn hate the woman he should’ve been protecting, and

absolute refusal to ever be anywhere alone as soon as she returned, even if it was just for

for finally came in, and it didn’t bring what

failed. But I’ve reached the real contacts.

like something she had to physically

quiet, simmering frustration of a woman who could not figure out how Seraphine always seemed to be one step

traces back to me,’ she said through mind link,

than give us up. As long as they catch her alone, and I

edges of it. She was still holding onto it when footsteps came

she said, cutting

walked in, and there was nothing warm in his face. besides, he was naked, moving through the room without looking at her, and headed

went to him, touched his