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.

into Daisy’s path with the calm, unhurried precision of someone who had done this a thousand times before and never once found it

one clean, measured blow straight to the chest, and the force of it picked Daisy up off her trajectory and dropped her flat on her

completely still, the fury wiped clean off her face,

fake concern. "Alpha Voren, you should have let me handle it," he said, his voice carrying just the right amount of worry. "It’d be a miracle if

Seraphine’s revenge wasn’t finished yet, and a dead Daisy was a Daisy who never got to feel the full weight of

"Daisy!"

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

her against his chest as he straightened, and his eyes, already burning,

your mother, Bryan. You

up at him with the clear, untroubled eyes of a child who had already

can pull off without trying, "shouldn’t she be protecting me? I’m not even

her the way you’d carry someone you were terrified of losing, her head tipped back against his shoulder, and then he turned

the edges, something close to breaking in it. He knew exactly what a

it, felt the aftershock of it even among other Alphas, men built for violence who still staggered

hit differently than anything else. "How could you use that much strength

at him steadily, without

actually train her if you’re serious about her being Luna. She wouldn’t even qualify as a low-class warrior

a fact upon remembering his training with Seraphine during the Santiago ordeal. He remembered pulling his punches on her too, but she’d taken hits

on the other hand, had gone down from one blow she never even had time to brace for. There

her to the hospital," Seraphine said. "I’ll