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.

they get when fear runs ahead of the body and the body is still catching

"Voren, Sera—"

And then he stopped.

was going to say stayed stuck somewhere between his chest and his throat. His eyes dropped to them. To the way Voren was still braced over

they were tangled together on the ground. Ravyn stood in the rain, his emotions all over the place as he searched for the

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

eyes were still on

mud and Voren was directly above her, both of them completely drenched, the rain hammering down

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

involuntary, the kind of sound a person makes when pain catches

"Ouch—"

in the way that meant she had already switched into doctor mode and her brain was

warriors closest to him took a step forward, hands out, ready to

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

The warriors pulled back.

Something loosened in

now. The tree. The dent crushed into the top of the car on Seraphine’s side. The mud. The way

was not what it

explained why Voren’s wolf hadn’t already healed him. A break bad enough, close enough to something serious, and even a wolf that lethal would have to wait for

voice pulled everyone’s attention

of stripping the armor off a person whether they wanted it to or not, and right now he looked almost vulnerable, his jaw tight, his gaze locked onto her

you move

dripping from his hair down to his face

into a hold. I’m going to move out from under you and as soon as I’m clear, I’ll help reset your bone.