Alpha's Regret: The Seventh Time was Forever

Chapter 270 – Co-Luna Is My Woman and Bryan...

Raul’s smile hadn’t moved. It sat on his face like he’d earned it, wide and loose and completely sure of itself.

"Co-Luna is my woman." He said it the way people say things they’ve been holding onto for too long, finally getting to set it down in front of someone. "And Bryan is my son." He let that land before continuing. "Play along, keep your mouth shut around Co-Luna, and nothing has to happen to you. Simple as that."

Damon stood very still.

It was the kind of still that happens when your body is processing something faster than your face can keep up with.

The cold moved through him slow and thorough, starting somewhere in his chest and spreading outward. He wanted to grab Raul by the collar. He wanted to do considerably worse than that. But Seraphine’s voice lived in the back of his head the way it always did when he was about to do something she’d want him to hold off on.

Wait, it said. Not yet.

He breathed through it.

The moon festival. That was the window. With Alpha Voren being a coward, it could be a great opportunity to bring Seraphine back to the pack to expose all of Daisy’s evil deeds.

He kept his expression easy. Unbothered. The kind of face that gave Raul exactly what he wanted to see.

"To keep your secret," Damon said, his voice perfectly level, "make sure Co-Luna never finds out that I know anything."

chest expanded. He looked like a man who’d just

stretched the words out,

until he was outside. The door shut behind him and the smile was gone before he reached the bottom

past the road, past the treeline, deeper into the woods until

out his phone. He was about to call Seraphine when he remembered something important, and mind linked one

of the pack’s strongest warriors, a man he trusted more than most. Everything. What he eats, who

Damon. The response

added before closing the link. He has enough pulling at him right

wind moved through at the

ring. "Sera, you are not going to

tired in the particular way that meant she’d already been through too much tonight to brace for impact. "Just

sat forward on the couch without making a sound. His elbows went to his knees and his eyes went to her face, reading everything she wasn’t

pulled in a slow breath. He had

"You know better than to hold back on

firm. "I just needed to make sure nobody was on this line that shouldn’t be. Last time we talked, Alpha Voren was

from Seraphine’s end. "I understand that." Her voice softened just slightly around

was another pause before Damon made

didn’t make a

cut straight through the phone speaker, too loud, too fast, no filter on it at

disappointment in his voice