Alpha's Regret: The Seventh Time was Forever

Chapter 298 - Marigold is mine

Voren adjusted his position a bit, sliding one arm behind his head while his eyes stayed fixed on the ceiling.

"The whole relationship only lasted a few months," he went on. "And she wasn’t all that obsessed with me even when our first meeting was arranged after the found someone who matched the picture I sent, because she had seen her share of men. Excuse my language on that."

"I spent around two months trying to win her over with expensive gifts and all the things a guy would normally do for a woman he’s interested in. But I was also nervous about getting involved with a human, if you can understand where I was coming from."

"An Alpha’s strength during sex is on another level, and I knew I could really hurt her if I wasn’t careful. So I slept with her just twice the entire time. I was extra careful, never going all the way in, and then it was over. Still, she complained that I was too huge for her, and I totally got it. Even if I had married her, we both knew we’d never get the kind of sexual satisfaction we each needed."

"Aside from that, my pack would never accept a human as Luna, and Bloodfang would kill me for it. So after that second time, when I saw how much pain she was in, I didn’t try again. And right around then Stanley came through with everything he’d found, and that became the final straw."

"I tried to move on after that." He paused. "But two years later, she showed up at my door holding a toddler on her hip."

Seraphine’s chest tightened up. She kept her breathing steady and even. She kept listening.

"She said she hadn’t told me when she got pregnant because she wasn’t sure at first. That she needed time to figure out who the baby’s daddy really was."

"But she’d already done a paternity test on her own, without me knowing. And it came

exactly pride, but more like someone describing the moment the whole ground opened under their feet and they had to

a year old." His voice got warmer when he talked about her,

scared of me one bit. Her body was still small enough to match her actual age, but she warmed up to me

her lips together

away," he continued. "Before the second test even came back." He turned his head toward her briefly. "Yeah, I still ran my own

"And it confirmed it?"

want to let her go. She wasn’t interested in sharing custody or any kind of normal arrangement

me to marry her. I said no. She kept pushing. I said no again. Then she said

let out a slow breath, unable to believe that a mother would

"Twenty million."

heart ached. She

"I gave her fifty."

Seraphine blinked hard. "You—"

my daughter?" Voren said it like the decision had been simple math. "Any amount felt way too low. So I gave her fifty, had my lawyers put together a restraining order, and she signed every single page without much fight. Coco stays completely away from Marigold. That was the agreement, and