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.

my room." Voren’s voice rolled past her shoulder, flat and unbothered, and the weight of his attention landed on Daisy like something physical. "Do you

back slightly. "No...no, I just remembered, Ravyn told

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 understood that the first

she woke up that hospital bed long after the punch Voren

the rain on his back without a second thought. She’d rolled that image around in her head afterward, picking at

never done that for her, making the thought cut through her chest before she could stop

all." She paused intentionally, wanting Voren to refute it and loaded, "If you want her, I don’t think

bring up wolves." Seraphine’s voice 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.

color left Daisy’s face so fast it

turned. "What are you talking

the hallway tightened. Seraphine held Daisy’s gaze for exactly one long second for Daisy to understand that the only reason this conversation was stopping here was because Seraphine

Ravyn got this information, he might begin to

Daisy’s jaw worked silently.

authority that came so naturally to her sliding back into place like she’d just remembered she was the smartest person in

you look at someone whose time you are no longer interested in wasting. "Where are your people? Round

but something smaller, warmer,

at the corners of her eyes, but she would not give anyone in this hallway the satisfaction of watching them

eyes were on

even looking

caved in a

straightened up, pulled in a slow breath through her nose, and nodded once like this had all been her idea. "You’re right. I