Alpha's Regret: The Seventh Time was Forever

Chapter 277 – Those lies you’re telling are digging a hole

Voren had stayed away on purpose. After that morning in the outlands, the way she had put her sunglasses back on and thanked him like he was a business associate who had held a door open for her, Voren had made a decision. Give her space. Let her breathe. Don’t be the thing that makes her uncomfortable.

And he had kept to it for days.

But he missed her, told himself that was the only reason he was here was because of the proposal. Five hundred billion deal was a good enough reason to be let into her office.

When her secretary informed him that Seraphine was in her office with Corvine, something dropped in his chest that he didn’t have a clean name for. Heavy and uninvited and completely unreasonable. He stood outside the door for maybe three seconds, then pushed it open without knocking.

He already knew what he was going to find and there it was. Seraphine’s arms around Corvine’s shoulders, her head slightly down, and Corvine’s arm around her like it had been there a thousand times before and expected to be there a thousand more.

Voren stood in the doorway and felt something move through him that had no business being there. This wasn’t the first time. It wasn’t even the second. And she wasn’t his.

Voren had no claim, no standing, no rational reason for the way looking at them together felt like something pressing directly on a bruise.

He set the proposal on the edge of her desk. Didn’t look at her face. His voice came out flat and clipped.

"Let’s talk." His eyes moved to Corvine. "Your office."

away, reaching up to clear her face. Voren

He

that particular cold energy that lowered the temperature

look that said several things without saying any of them out loud and followed, the door clicked shut

preferred order but wasn’t rigid about it, everything in its place but lived in. Voren

evenness was something that wasn’t quiet. "But I’m asking again. What exactly

at him for a long

it, the kind that came out when something was

you the same person who told

Voren’s jaw tightened.

looked for the words to dismantle that, to reframe it, to find some angle that made it mean something different than what it obviously meant but nothing came. Because the

the woman Ravyn had pushed out and feeling she deserved every bit of it

story, though he was still pained by how she keeps her feelings wrapped

now. And it’s not even about attraction. Yes, I like

didn’t change even slightly. He looked at Voren the way someone looks at a story