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 —

kiss." Voren cut in front of whatever she was about to say. "That’s not why I

do about Ravyn, I’m behind it. All of it. You won’t have to look over your shoulder and

Seraphine went still.

the sunglasses off, just enough to actually look at him, to check his face for the angle, for the catch, for whatever was hiding underneath it. But his expression just sat there, open and steady,

all you came to say." She put the glasses back

her. He stood there for a moment and the thoughts running through his

hot and so cold that being around her felt like standing in a city where the weather changed every

looking at him like he was a mildly

someone who had been watching and had already figured it out. ’You spent the first half of connecting with her being

Voren exhaled quietly.

through the window without

didn’t go back to his own though, not yet. He stayed on the

A few minutes passed.

from his hair and rolling his neck like a man who had just dropped forty pounds

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

genuinely amazes me." His eyes moved back to Seraphine. "The way you manage to keep so many men orbiting

a second, something rearranging itself behind his expression. "Right. I almost forgot." His voice went lighter, almost conversational. "You’ve got a gifted wolf. Makes sense. That’s where all that confidence

a single

sat there with her mouth slightly open and the response she had been building

got behind the wheel. Said nothing. Smart enough to