Alpha's Regret: The Seventh Time was Forever

Chapter 252 – He’s so ‘hot.’

Seraphine could feel the weight that had come down across his back. She could feel him absorbing it, holding it up, refusing to let it crush down any further.

Then she heard it.

A sound that made her stomach drop.

The low, awful crack of bone. It moved through him and she felt it more than heard it, the way a sound can go through a person when they are too close. His wolf was right at the surface, pushing forward, the animal trying to take over to handle what the man was carrying.

Shouts came from everywhere at once. The warriors converged fast and she felt the weight lift as several of them got underneath the tree and rolled it clear.

Voren stayed where he was for a breath longer than necessary.

Then he pulled back just enough to look down at her. Rain ran off his jaw and dropped onto her cheek. His eyes moved across her face fast, checking.

"Are you alright?"

She opened her mouth to answer.

And then a fourth presence arrived.

She felt it before she saw it. The ground vibrated slightly with the weight of something large moving at full speed. A werewolf cleared the last stretch and landed nearby and the shift happened mid-motion, fast and practiced, the wolf folding back into a man in the space of a breath.

Ravyn stood there in the rain.

when fear runs ahead of the body and the body is

"Voren, Sera—"

And then he stopped.

eyes dropped to them. To the way Voren was

stood in the rain, his

forward and held out an emergency clothe toward Ravyn. It was soaked through before he even finished wearing it. The rain was

were still

was flat on her back in the mud and Voren was directly above her, both of them completely drenched, the rain hammering down on the two of them

trying to push himself off and away from her, but h;is body

out of him was low and involuntary, the kind of sound a person makes

"Ouch—"

already switched into doctor mode and her

step forward,

at them. "Nobody touch him. He could have a broken bone. If you

The warriors pulled back.

out a breath he didn’t realize he had been holding since he crossed that gate. Something loosened in his chest. The image his mind had built in the three seconds between arriving and understanding the situation quietly dismantled

of the car on Seraphine’s side. The

not what it

explained why Voren’s wolf hadn’t already healed him. A break bad enough, close enough

Seraphine’s voice pulled everyone’s attention back

was something unguarded in them that didn’t belong on Voren’s face. Pain had a way of stripping the armor off a person whether they wanted it to

you move

slightly, rain dripping from his hair down to his

press them flat on the ground. Get into a hold. I’m going to move out from under you and as