Alpha's Regret: The Seventh Time was Forever

Chapter 273 – I wanted to apologize to you last night

’This is the absolute last time I’m asking you anything about outfits.’ Seraphine said to Marsha as she smoothed the front of her clothing one final time.

Marsha barely stirred. ’I’m going into a deep sleep anyway.’ A long, slow yawn rolled through her, the kind that stretched all the way to the bones. ’But for the record, it wasn’t just me making that call. His wolf asked what you were wearing, and I told him what I told you to put on. You both look good.’

Another beat of uncomfortable silence took over her mind before Marsha released another timebomb. ’And the next time you come back, make sure you’re carrying his pup.’

Seraphine moved to refute it but it was too late. Marsha had already blocked her.

Seraphine stood there for a second, blinking, equal parts annoyed and flustered, then grabbed her bag and moved.

She made it maybe four steps down the hallway before Voren caught the handle of her luggage right out of her grip.

"Leave it." No negotiation in his voice. Just quiet certainty.

She didn’t fight him on it. She let go and walked faster, eyes forward, scanning the lobby for any sign of Corvine’s arrival. The front doors opened and the outside air hit her, cool, carrying that particular scent of rain.

"Sera." Voren’s footsteps were right behind her. "Wait."

She kept moving but the car park was still empty and Corvine’s car wasn’t there yet, which meant she had nowhere to actually go. She slowed, stopped, and kept her eyes on the street.

Voren came around beside her, setting the bags down near his feet. "I wanted to apologize to you last night." His voice was different out here, less guarded. "But you were already out."

"For what exactly?" Her eyes stayed on the line of cars along the curb.

hair sideways across her face in dark ribbons. She reached up to push it back but his hand was already there, no hesitation, no

went completely still, taking a

the fact that everything was too much for her. They needed a proper talk and he just could not say if

that made her feel like she was standing under a light she

"Take off the sunglasses."

quite a

first and when their eyes met, the air left her lungs in a quiet rush. His eyes had gone red. Not the soft kind of

a deep, saturated red that meant something was happening internally that he wasn’t saying

Her mouth opened.

the flash of a familiar car turning into

gone and his jaw set, his fingers

even fully cut out his door was open. He crossed the distance in three strides and pulled Seraphine into his arms the way someone

was low, genuine, warm in all the ways that came naturally

her. Not the rigid, reluctant kind of letting, the real kind, where her shoulders dropped and

what got

the way down and had nowhere else to go. Corvine walked up on a

Voren." Corvine glanced over after stepping back, his expression easy

Voren said nothing.

He loaded the luggage into the trunk, opened the passenger door for Seraphine, and within two

watched them go. Then

instead of toward where

flicked briefly to the rearview

passenger window.

back on the road. "This