Alpha's Regret: The Seventh Time was Forever

Chapter 246 – What exactly are you talking about?

Seraphine had barely processed the sight of Daisy’s former allies turning on her when something else entirely pulled her attention and held it.

The moment her eyes found Daisy’s across the open ground, something happened that she couldn’t quite name. It wasn’t just anger looking back at her from Daisy’s face.

It was something wilder than that, something unhinged and burning, like whatever thin wall had been keeping Daisy’s composure upright had finally given way all at once.

Daisy moved like something had taken over her body, not her wolf, not any rational part of her, but something rawer and uglier that didn’t know how to stop itself.

Her legs were already carrying her forward, her gaze locked and dark, the kind of dark that doesn’t leave room for second thoughts.

Seraphine planted her feet and steadied herself. She wasn’t afraid, and her body moved into readiness anyway, instinct and training taking over before her mind caught up.

But she wasn’t the only one. Every man around her had read the same thing in the air and was already moving, pulling inward, closing ranks. And from inside the gym, someone else had heard it too.

’Sera. You have to die.’

Ravyn had heard them from somewhere inside, and for just a half second, he didn’t want to believe what he was hearing. He stood very still, then he stepped through the doorway, the others filing out close behind him, and what he saw confirmed everything.

Damon was already moving to cut Daisy off, his body angled between her and Seraphine, ready to absorb whatever was coming. But Voren got there first.

with the calm, unhurried precision of someone who had done this a thousand times before and never

back and punched her, one clean, measured blow straight to the chest, and the force of it

there completely still, the fury wiped clean

looked down at her for a moment, then up at Voren, rearranging his expression to fake concern. "Alpha Voren, you should have let me handle it," he said, his voice

finished yet, and a dead Daisy was a Daisy who never got

"Daisy!"

the entrance of the gym, and he crossed the ground between them fast, dropping to a crouch

as he straightened, and

your mother, Bryan. You

with the clear, untroubled eyes of a child who had already worked out exactly where he stood on the matter. His small

pull off without trying, "shouldn’t she be protecting me? I’m not even seven yet." He paused just long enough to let that land. "And she was running

in his arms, holding her the way you’d carry someone

she-wolf, Voren." His voice had gone raw around the edges, something close to

felt the aftershock of it even among other Alphas, men built for

anything else. "How could

at him steadily, without apology and without

want to actually train her if you’re serious about her being Luna. She wouldn’t even qualify as

Seraphine during the Santiago ordeal. He remembered pulling his punches on her too,

asking him to make it easier. Daisy, on the other hand, had gone down from one blow she never even had time to brace for. There was no comparison

Seraphine said. "I’ll check on