Alpha's Regret: The Seventh Time was Forever

Chapter 262

Chapter 262 – Use me

"Seraphine."

Ravyn’s voice came from the top of the stairs. He was leaning against the banister, unhurried, like he’d been standing there long enough to have heard most of it. "I hope you’ll make it to the moon festival. Next full moon. We’re hosting it here."

Seraphine looked up at him. Her expression didn’t change. "Good luck with that."

Ravyn tilted his head. "You say that like you’re not coming."

"You’re smarter than I give you credit for."

Something flashed in Ravyn’s eyes, quick, hot, and his jaw went tight. He swallowed it down. Voren was three feet away and standing very still, which tended to have that effect on conversations.

"The bond restoration ritual requires input from every werewolf," Ravyn said, his voice measured now. "Packs across the whole world are being contacted. We need everyone."

"I heard you," Seraphine responded without looking up, still unfazed.

"You could find your fated mate there, you know." He came down two steps, and there was something intentional in his tone now, something that was aimed somewhere specific. "He might not be an Alpha, probably—"

"Enough!" Voren’s voice dropped into the room like something heavy hitting a floor.

still on

hug. Come on." He

by several degrees the moment Seraphine opened her arms

to Damon slowly, dark and absolute, the kind of look that didn’t need volume behind it to carry exactly the right amount of warning, and it stayed there, steady and unblinking, and every single person in that room understood exactly

Nobody saw him move.

around her, his arm hooking under hers from behind and lifting her clean off the ground like she was made

breath and the next and Damon stood there blinking, genuinely trying to

wonder, not entirely as a joke, if Voren had vampire

against her hip as she twisted left

was completely level. Conversational, even. He was already moving toward the door, Seraphine tucked under one arm like a rolled up carpet,

The middle one.

pressed his lips together very

echoed through the entrance hall as the front door swung open around them. Her legs were still

badly?" Voren stepped through the door without breaking stride, the cool night air hitting them both. His voice dropped just slightly, something low and even threading through it.

Seraphine stopped wiggling.

of movement in her

arm, like all her circuits had tripped at once, and the only sound for a full three seconds was the soft crunch of gravel under Voren’s

around to the driver’s side as he checked where the

stood in the doorway and watched the taillights until they disappeared around the tree line. The smile on his face was the complicated kind

Ravyn said

five under punishment had slowed to a collective crawl the moment Voren carried Seraphine through the front door. Now they’d

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