Alpha's Regret: The Seventh Time was Forever

Chapter 303: New daddy’s friend

Seraphine was in real pain now, and she had zero energy left for watching Voren sit there opening and closing his mouth like he was trying to remember words from a language he’d forgotten.

She pressed against the pillows and pressed her palm flat against her lower belly, breathing through the discomfort.

The ache had gone from dull and manageable to something sharp with real teeth, radiating out from her core and making it hard to focus on anything else.

"Voren." Her voice came out thinner than she meant for it to. "This hurts a lot. If you don’t actually have an antidote, just let me sleep it off." She breathed out slowly. "And can you bring Marigold in here?"

He took a long breath, the kind people take right before saying something they’ve been dreading.

"The solution isn’t something you’re gonna like."

She looked at him. "If there’s a solution and it actually works, I honestly don’t care what it is right now. Just tell me."

He held her gaze, steady and serious, the way he did when he needed her to really hear him.

"I need to activate your pheromones." He said it quiet and even. "That’s what my father told me. That’s the antidote. Will you let me?"

The words dropped into the room and just sat there.

"What?" The word shot out of her, sharp and loud, before she could catch it. She stared at him hard.

would actually involve between two people, and her

any kind of definition for what we are yet. We haven’t talked about any of that. Isn’t there another way? Any

work an angle. He just looked tired, honest, and genuinely sorry this was

staring up at the

up from the edge of the bed. "Let me get

She didn’t argue.

let her eyes close, one arm draped across her stomach, riding the waves of pain and trying to think through everything

so quiet, Seraphine could hear faint noises from the rest of the mansion as Voren moved around down the

swung open

feet. Fast. Full of

the side of the bed and launched herself up, burrowing straight into Seraphine’s side with both arms wrapped tight around her and her little

voice was warm, immediate, and totally sure. "Are

the sight of those wide blue eyes looking up at her with such open, uncomplicated worry,

smoothed Marigold’s thick hair back from

her face with that focused skepticism only little kids

thought she’d been quietly holding onto come a little closer to the surface. She kept her voice light

your mommy." She watched Marigold’s face closely. "Did she also tell you that your daddy was

small features, the kind kids

the door. "Will