Alpha's Regret: The Seventh Time was Forever

Chapter 304: Give me a baby brother

Marigold shook her head right away. "No. Only in the pack. Sometimes I miss her and when I try really hard to think about her, I begin to shake."

It was clear that Marigold’s attempt to communicate with the moon goddess in the city was the reason for the seizures.

Seraphine took that in without showing much on her face. Most people would have smiled and brushed it off but Seraphine didn’t.

A child with that kind of connection, only appearing on sacred pack ground, the physical trembling when the link got strained, wasn’t imagination or a random dream.

That was a gifted child. A seer, maybe. A shaman in the making. The kind of soul born already standing close to something most people spend their whole lives trying to touch.

Seraphine tucked it somewhere close to her heart. She also kept the DNA test idea tucked in the back of her mind, not because she doubted what she felt when she looked at this little girl, but because she was a doctor first, and she needed real answers.

She brought her hand up and cupped the side of Marigold’s small face. "Now that I’m here," she said quietly, "I’m going to take good care of you. That’s a real promise."

With her daughter here, she wasn’t going anywhere. Whatever she lost being separated from her, it was time to begin filling the gap.

Now it all made sense, just as Corvine said. Who knows, Marigold might have fallen into the house of a good family who cherishes her. Indeed, she fell into the right hands and Voren would kill to keep her safe.

her with those serious blue eyes, sitting with the words for a moment the way kids do when something actually matters. Then her expression changed into something wide open

daddy?" she asked, eyes as big as they

at her. She couldn’t look away. She tried, but she simply

clue that this was a huge, complicated question asked with the same casual confidence as wondering what was for

just too damn

big question for a little girl," Seraphine pulled Marigold’s nose playfully before turning serious. "I

things bigger than her age. "Mommy, marry daddy before the blood moon festival," she said

she tell you about the Blood Moon festival too or did you hear it from daddy? Do you have any

Marigold embraced Seraphine

the heat climbing to her cheeks as the little girl

body already tingling from the innocent words that carried way more weight than they should. Voren offered her a soothing tea. "Drink

and forth to everything Voren had said and

did nothing to calm

determined to find the mark

days when a lot of things needed her attention, but right now all she could think about was the way her body was reacting, aching in ways

Voren took the cup from her and pressed his forehead against hers, his breath strained and hot against her skin. "Sera, I hate to see you in pain. Let me help you,

to say and nodded instead, her

hungry smile that