Alpha's Regret: The Seventh Time was Forever

Chapter 266

Chapter 266 - Better safe than sorry

The water was cold and dark, but Voren didn’t hesitate. The moment he caught their scent cutting through the night air, sharp and wrong, he moved. Not up. Not toward the surface where they’d be waiting.

He pushed deeper, cutting through the current with long strokes, letting the water swallow him whole. He knew these waterways better than most people knew their own backyards.

Every tunnel. Every hidden outlet carved into the rock walls below. He came up on the far side, fingers gripping wet stone as he hauled himself through a narrow passage and climbed until his feet hit solid ground again.

He was a good stretch away from where he’d gone in.

What he didn’t count on was the sound of footsteps right beside him.

Not Seraphine’s.

He pressed flat against the rock face and held his breath, scanning the darkness. That’s when he caught movement in the distance, a cluster of figures tightening around Seraphine like a noose.

His jaw locked. He didn’t think twice. The shift came fast and hard, bones rearranging themselves as Bloodfang took shape, and Voren launched himself into the trees.

The assassins never saw it coming.

They went down one after another, each one hitting the ground with a finality that left no room for argument. When the last one stopped moving, Bloodfang’s paws pressed into the earth and his chest rumbled low.

He was already turning toward Seraphine when something made him stop dead.

Her wolf.

eyes fixed on the creature

through him like a current.

recognition breaking through everything else. Hold on. Are you absolutely sure? The gifted wolf is supposed to be a story. Something the old ones told to scare

didn’t move from her. Look at her. Wild. Unafraid. She loves this the same way I

left of the fight with something that went beyond training or instinct. There was joy in it. The raw,

it did. Piece by piece, it all clicked into place. Seraphine’s instincts. The way she read situations

knowledge she carried that seemed to come from nowhere. The way she fought like she’d been doing it

had been giving her all of

host not as strength or

Ravyn had

look. If he had, really looked, he would

glance, which meant he’d never once taken the

Entirely

focus like a blade. She can’t kill that one. Not yet. We need him talking first. Someone sent these people and I

was already moving before the thought finished, crossing

dirt in front of Marsha, head bowed and shoulders caved in. Her wolf was standing over him, and Voren knew that look.

maybe

It’s us.

head around, body already coiling to strike, and for one

Both wolves pulled back into themselves at the same time, the shift

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