Alpha's Regret: The Seventh Time was Forever

Chapter 276

Chapter 276 – But if Voren is the person who...

"There’s nothing there. It was our wolves, and that’s it. We both came back to our senses after."

The words came out so fast, stacked so tightly on top of each other, that Corvine didn’t even need to analyze them. Speed like that only happened when a person was outrunning something.

He looked at Seraphine’s pink cheeks and said nothing for a moment. Just reached across her desk and picked up a blank A4 sheet and a pencil.

"Hmmm." The sound came out low and thoughtful, the kind that wasn’t really agreement or disagreement, just acknowledgment that he had heard her and had formed his own opinion about what she said.

He started drawing.

"You know what, Sera." His eyes stayed on the paper, pencil moving in easy strokes. "The lies you keep telling? They work exactly like a hole."

She looked up from her screen.

He was already sketching it out, a wide, deep well, the kind with no obvious bottom. Then, with a few simple lines, a small figure began to take shape at the top edge of it. The proportions were rough and completely unbothered about being rough.

"Every time you say something you don’t mean, the hole gets a little bigger." He kept drawing, shading the walls of the well with quick back and forth strokes. "And one day it becomes so deep, so wide—" he added the figure leaning slightly toward the edge— "that when you finally fall in, nobody’s going to be able to reach down far enough to get you out."

He lifted the paper.

small, clearly female stick figure at the bottom of an enormous well, arms up, surrounded by nothing. It was objectively terrible art and also somehow completely recognizable

the nearest pen and sent it flying across the desk at him. Corvine caught it without

serious." He set the paper down and pointed at it with the pencil. "We should frame this

"Stop."

"For documentation purposes."

"Corvine."

the playfulness in his face altered into something more honest. He observed her the way he always did when he had decided

Seraphine looked away first.

Of all the men that could have ended up in the orbit of her

complicated and sharp, and he got under her skin in a way that felt different from anything she had a name for. Even Ravyn, back when

immediately picked

things in my head," she said, more quietly

Corvine looked at her.

Voren and Seraphine train together, then everything that happened when Seraphine through

something in

went somewhere

way she said the things she had already made her peace with. "So

question settled

Then he leaned forward, elbows on his knees, and looked at her with an expression she had only seen on him a handful of times, stripped

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