Alpha's Regret: The Seventh Time was Forever

Chapter 294

Chapter 294 - It was you?

"Man, Ravyn made the whole situation ten times worse. He said it was proof of what he’d always thought about you. That you were inconsistent and couldn’t be trusted. He claimed that was the reason he never really liked you in the first place."

Voren’s expression stayed mostly the same but something in his eyes got a little colder when he mentioned it.

"I told myself you probably needed some space. That I was crowding you too much, and maybe if I just stepped back and gave you room to breathe, things would eventually find their way back to normal. So I left again. And this time I stayed gone for years."

Seraphine stayed completely still on her back beside him on the bed, staring up at the ceiling right alongside him like they were both watching the same old movie playing out above them.

"When I came back," Voren continued. "It was even worse than before."

He let that hang there for a second before he kept going with the story.

"It was your eighteenth birthday." The corner of his mouth moved just a tiny bit.

"When we were kids, you always used to talk about becoming a doctor. Every single time someone asked you what you wanted to be when you grew up, that was your answer every time. You never changed your mind about it." He glanced over at her sideways.

"So while I was out there building the future I planned for us, I pulled strings to secure a spot for you in the college you attended, though, you still had to go through some procedures but I had great faith in your abilities. Everything was lined up perfectly."

voice got quieter almost without him realizing

back to tell you. But you were standing on that

only person in the whole world who existed." Voren’s voice didn’t break at all. It just went very, very flat. "And you told him you loved him right there in front of

after that felt really heavy

had already grieved it so completely that there was nothing left

He kept staring at the ceiling. "But I still found a way to send you that admission letter. I made it anonymous because I feared you would reject it if it came directly from me, just as you rejected my other gifts. I still

somewhere in the

voice came out small and a little unsteady. Her eyes stung and she blinked

received that admission letter believing it was some kind

had turned it over in her mind, feeling quietly grateful about it, and somewhere in a private corner of herself she

held onto that possibility like it meant something important about him. Like maybe he

had been

remember that day," she said, her voice a bit steadier now but her

was completely different about you. The long hair was gone, your face looked harder, you barely smiled at all. You kept looking at me in this way I couldn’t figure out and I didn’t know what to do with

was so obvious that day. Like you two had grown up in totally different directions. And

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