Alpha's Regret: The Seventh Time was Forever

Chapter 244 - You are supposed to be her friend

’Train with her,’ Bloodfang purred in Voren’s mind, and he was already settled on it, already past the discussion stage entirely.

’No.’ Voren held that line. He knew Seraphine’s strength and had already broken his personal rule to train with her during the Santiago mission.

However, he was not going to do that in front of a pack. That was a whole different ball game and he was most certain that pairing with Seraphine would take the attention of the warriors from what they had been assigned to do.

’You are supposed to be her friend. Your best friend maneuvered her into coming here, and now he’s making everything worse, and her wolf is genuinely upset about it — Marsha told me herself. If you actually want to make any of this right, you get her out from under what he’s doing,’ Bloodfang revealed and that was when it clicked.

Voren agreed to swim in Ravyn’s mess and now, he had to clean it up to smoothen whatever anger Seraphine now held towards him.

’That’s going behind Ravyn’s back,’ he pointed out, caring more about his friendship and their Alpha code but Bloodfang only cared about his comfort.

’Is it?’ Bloodfang asked, with the patient ease of something very old and entirely unbothered by the back-and-forth. ’Or is it just inconvenient for him?’

Voren turned that over and could not find an answer that fully held up under examination.

And underneath all of it, sitting there quietly, was the practical truth he hadn’t been able to stop thinking about since this morning: last night, he had actually slept.

and not for any length of time that would impress anyone, but peacefully. Without Bloodfang pressing against every wall inside him, without that relentless, grinding pressure that had become so familiar he’d almost

two hours of something that felt genuinely like rest, and he wanted that again with an intensity that made it hard

very specific direction. The voice of a man who had expected his

with her until the remaining few minutes runs out," Voren said smoothly, his tone entirely steady. "Which is precisely what she’s steering you toward right now, and you are walking directly

looked between them for one long moment, reading the room, reading Voren’s entirely too relaxed expression, reading Seraphine’s complete indifference to how any of this was landing

Voren wasn’t getting that either. Simple as that. Her being here was supposed to work in his favor. That had been the whole point of getting her through the door this morning, and it was not going to become an

made him sound like

something by saying it, thought the redirect would land cleanly, put things back where he needed them. But that was not

with the easy, unhurried certainty of someone who had never once been

are you waiting

agreement functioning as the ironclad guarantee. "I’m coming too, mommy,"

Seraphine said, without turning around, "please bring everything Bryan

eyes. It was rather embarrassing for a man of his

every intention of moving things in his direction, but he was leaving

Voren’s voice followed. "Hold on.