Alpha's Regret: The Seventh Time was Forever

Chapter 257 - What are you doing in Alpha Voren’s room?

Seraphine’s heart was doing something completely out of control inside her chest, loud and fast and totally traitorous, and the worst part was she was almost certain he could hear it. alpha wolves always could.

Heat crawled up the back of her neck, moved slow across her cheeks, and she hated every second of it. She pressed her palm flat against his chest and pushed, but he didn’t move.

He just stood there like the wall behind him had grown a heartbeat, solid and warm and completely unbothered, and her hand stayed right where she’d put it because pushing him was apparently just something that wasn’t going to happen tonight.

"Voren." Her voice came out lower than she wanted it to. "Let me go."

Something changed in him all at once.

He stepped back, but sudden, like a switch had flipped behind his eyes. He blinked once and the intensity that had been sitting all over his face a second ago just... lifted. He looked at her the way someone looks when they’ve just walked into a room and can’t remember why they came.

"I’m sorry." A small crease formed between his brows. "What just happened?"

Seraphine pressed her lips together and said nothing. She had a feeling that it hadn’t entirely been him. Bloodfang must have been behind it.

She turned away from him and finally got the door open. Ravyn and Daisy were standing right there in front of the door. Ravyn’s hand raised like he was just about to knock.

Daisy’s eyes went straight to Seraphine, and Voren right behind her, something sharp and calculating moving through her gaze before she could smooth it over.

"What are you doing in Alpha Voren’s room?" The question came out fast, her voice carrying that particular edge she liked to use when she wanted to make sure someone else was also paying attention. Her eyes cut sideways to Ravyn for just a fraction of a second.

Seraphine opened her mouth.

shoulder, flat and unbothered, and the weight of his attention landed on Daisy like something

I just remembered, Ravyn told everyone not to enter

to hold the space. "And since it’s my room, in this pack that isn’t mine, I decide who comes in and who doesn’t. Same courtesy Ravyn gets when he stays at Grimroot." His eyes stayed on Daisy’s face the whole time. "I’m sure you

long after the

that image around in her

for her, making the thought cut through her chest before

a small, carefully placed smile rest on her mouth. "It’s just...you two look good together, that’s all." She paused intentionally, wanting Voren to refute

slid in clean and smooth, cutting straight across Daisy’s sentence like it had never existed. She tilted her head slightly, the picture of casual interest, her eyes moving to Ravyn. "Actually, Ravyn, have you ever seen Daisy’s

so fast it was

turned. "What are

hallway tightened. Seraphine held Daisy’s gaze for exactly one long second for Daisy to

might begin to investigate other things and ruin

Daisy’s jaw worked silently.

the quiet authority that

at someone whose time you are no longer

a quiet sound. Not quite a laugh, but something smaller, warmer, the kind that escapes

bobbed. The tears were there, she could feel them threatening at the corners of her eyes, but she would not give anyone in this hallway the satisfaction of watching them fall. She looked

his eyes were

even looking

caved in

her nose, and nodded once like this had all been her idea. "You’re