Alpha's Regret: The Seventh Time was Forever

Chapter 251 – Voren’s timely rescue

Voren dropped into the driver’s seat and pulled the door shut behind him. His shirt was damp across the shoulders and his hair had a few raindrops still running through it. He reached over and turned the heat up without saying anything about it, then looked at her.

"Where do you wanna go?"

Seraphine leaned her head back against the seat and took a long, slow breath. Her whole body felt heavy. Her chest felt heavier. She was done. She was so completely done with the Centenary pack.

"My bag." She groaned quietly, pressing her fingers against her forehead. "I left it in the lab."

She already knew what she was about to say before she said it. "I’m not going back in there."

Voren didn’t push her on it. He didn’t say anything.

"Can you call Damon?"

He glanced over. "For what?"

She turned her head toward him slowly, the way a person does when they are too tired to even argue properly. "He needs to know I’m not at the pack hospital anymore. He’ll be looking for me."

Voren reached into his pocket, pulled out his phone, and dialed. Then he put it flat on the console between them with the speaker on.

Seraphine looked at it, then looked at him. Her eyebrow went up.

"Would it hurt to just hand me the phone?"

"I don’t let anyone touch my phone." He said it the same way someone might tell you the sky was blue. No drama. No apology. Just a fact he had apparently made peace with a long time ago.

She stared at him for a second, genuinely curious now. What on earth was on that phone that made him hold it like it was classified material? She almost asked, but decided against it.

had known, she probably would have understood. That phone carried more weight than Voren would ever sit down and talk about. More pieces of himself, and secrets that he kept locked behind a screen because some things

The line picked up.

voice came through the speaker clear

Seraphine said, leaning slightly toward the

His tone changed immediately. Warmer.

you to grab my bag from the lab."

through from his end.

through it. The argument, the way Ravyn had almost hurt her, the moment she decided she was walking out. Damon listened without cutting her off,

he said, "Does this mean we don’t

her mouth and closed

completely forgotten about that part. She pressed her lips

the cure," she said, keeping

amused in his voice, like he knew her too well to let that land. "You’ve got a whole storage unit stocked up.

eyes squeezed shut. She sat there in the passenger seat with her eyes

the cure

boss." She could hear the small smile in it. "I’ll get your things together. But the way this weather looks right now, I’ll probably bring everything to you after it clears up. Oh, and Bryan’s down

slightly. "That’s good." The corner of her mouth moved.

running down the

calls from here on out then. For a

me to grab your bag. Your phone is probably sitting right in

and actually meant

call and slipped the phone back into his

aggressive against the roof of the car, and outside the windshield the world was turning grey and blurry. The trees at the edge of the road bent. The

caution triangles had been set up across

forehead and he had to raise his voice to be heard

are closed. Trees came down all

looked over at