Alpha's Regret: The Seventh Time was Forever

Chapter 274 – We kissed. It was...

Voren reached the passenger side of Corvine’s car right around the same time Corvine disappeared into the tree line, his clothes folded and left on the back seat, the car sitting quietly on the shoulder of the road with the hazards blinking.

He knocked on the window.

Seraphine took her time. She let a full five seconds pass before she rolled it down halfway, sunglasses still on, expression arranged into something between bored and annoyed.

"What now, Voren."

Not a question. A statement with a period at the end of it.

"We didn’t finish our conversation." His forearm rested on the roof of the car, casual, like he had all the time in the world. "You left before we could."

A slow breath pushed out through her nose. She was genuinely grateful for the sunglasses right now. They were doing a lot of work. "We kissed. It was a mistake because our wolves took over and made it happen. Done. Finished. Move on." She waved one hand lightly. "You can go now."

Something moved behind his eyes. Fast, then gone. His grip on the roof of the car tightened for just a second. "That’s really how you categorize it? Just like that?"

"Yes."

"So that’s how it goes whenever a man kisses you? Wolves did it, doesn’t count, next?"

Her head turned toward him slowly. The kind of slow that was its own warning. Her mouth opened —

come here about the kiss." Voren cut in front of whatever she was about to say.

you that whatever you decide to do about Ravyn, I’m behind it. All of it. You won’t have to look over your shoulder and wonder if I’m going to step in and complicate

Seraphine went still.

the catch, for whatever was hiding underneath it. But his expression just sat there, open and steady,

came to say." She put the glasses back on.

the thoughts running through

the weather changed every twenty minutes. Last night she had cried in his arms and

he was a mildly inconvenient stranger

voice was dry, unbothered, the tone of someone who had been watching and had already figured it out. ’You spent the first half of connecting with her being an idiot. What did you expect? And before you ask, no, I can’t tell you what she’s feeling right now. Her wolf locked herself away. I’ve

Voren exhaled quietly.

voice came through

though, not yet. He stayed on the shoulder with his hands in his pockets,

A few minutes passed.

came back out of the woods, shaking leaves from his hair and rolling his neck like a man who had just dropped forty pounds of tension, he pulled on his clothes without rushing

watched him and something changed in his expression, not hostility exactly, more like the slow turn of a thought

way you manage to keep so many men orbiting around you at

expression. "Right. I almost forgot." His voice went lighter, almost conversational. "You’ve got a gifted wolf. Makes sense. That’s

get a single word out and walked back to

there with her mouth slightly open and the response she had

behind the wheel. Said nothing.