Alpha's Regret: The Seventh Time was Forever

Chapter 292 - I miss us so much

"V?"

The nickname just slipped out of her mouth, feeling all old and familiar, and Voren froze right there in place.

He let the word hang between them, turning it around in his head like some old coin he hadn’t come across in forever.

A slow smile spread across his face, the soft and private kind that you can’t force or pretend at all.

"You used to call me that back when we were younger." His voice got really low, like he was mostly saying it to himself instead of her. "Do you remember any of that stuff?"

Seraphine’s cheeks heated up quick. She glanced away from him, over toward the window or anywhere else that wasn’t right at his face. "I wish I did, honestly. I heard myself say it in one of those videos and it just came out like that. It sounded right to me."

She tugged at the bottom of her sleeve, messing with the fabric a bit. "But that’s exactly the thing I keep trying to work out. Why you started hating me. Like, what actually went down between us? Because something definitely did happen, and nobody’s giving me any real answers about it."

Voren stayed quiet for a little while. Instead, he reached out and wrapped his hand gently around her arm, nothing pushy about it, just all warm and steady, and he guided her slowly over toward the bed.

He flopped down onto his back with his arms relaxed at his sides, then tilted his chin toward the empty spot right next to him.

"Come on. Lie down. It’s way more comfortable talking like this anyway."

Seraphine had already started moving to join him when something suddenly clicked in her brain. She stopped right in the middle of it.

"Wait, I need to shower first. I’ll just use the guest bathroom, it’s no big deal."

took some effort from him.

inside her chest when he

memory had these massive black holes everywhere. But every time

pushed the feeling way down

door open and stopped completely in

is this bathroom so huge?" Her voice bounced around the tiles, echoing all

polite or put on. "Because I love to actually relax in there. Take your time, no rush

angles, warm

people really lived in another

the water on hot and stepped

Voren lay there staring up at the ceiling, just listening to the steady

settled over his face, something hard to read, like a man sitting with emotions he’d carried around for years

lost you once before. That’s not happening again, not ever," he vowed to himself, his

meant every single word of it

the running water. "Can you get me something to wear? I didn’t bring

of his thoughts, got up from the bed, and headed over to the closet, and stood there for

the moment she’d agreed to come over — dresses, comfortable loungewear, everything exactly in her size,

to the bathroom door and knocked twice, keeping it easy and

was cracked open maybe six inches or so. He turned his back to

Wear this for

shirt quick. There was a moment

just call Corvine and have her bring some of my

a little grin. "I already have a whole wardrobe set up in there with your

he could practically hear