Alpha's Regret: The Seventh Time was Forever

Chapter 310: Let’s Get Married the Human Way

Just as Voren was about to let out the plan, she asked sincerely. "And what about Ravyn and Daisy?" Her voice cooling off a bit at their names, a flicker of old anger mixing with the warmth between them. "Right now, they don’t see me as any kind of real threat. I’m still the ex-Luna who got walked all over. That’s how they still picture me, and I need them to keep thinking that way, at least until the moon festival. I need that element of surprise on my side."

She let that sit there for a moment, the weight of it hanging between them like thick, charged air.

"The moment you announce us, everything changes. Ravyn will panic, Daisy will start scheming up new plans, and everything I’ve carefully crafted to drag all of Daisy’s dirty shit out into the open gets messed up before it even gets started. Ravyn would find any excuse to shut it down. He’ll do whatever it takes to protect her."

Voren exhaled through his nose, long and slow, the sound rough and masculine. He stared at the far wall for a few seconds like he was going through every angle she had just laid out, comparing them to his own understanding of the situation, his broad shoulders tense with the internal battle.

Then he nodded. Not in a reluctant way, but genuinely, respect shining in his eyes. "You have a point." He said it plainly, without making her work for it. "A real one."

He turned back to her, and that look was back in his eyes, that quiet, calculating energy that lived there when his mind was already thinking several steps ahead, mixed with pure hunger for her.

"But then here’s what I’m thinking. If we can’t announce it publicly, let’s get married secretly. Here in the city. Just you and me making it official in the way that matters most."

Seraphine blinked, her heart skipping hard at the raw commitment in his voice.

on his knees, his muscular frame so close she could feel the

been thinking about making you Marigold’s legal mother and trustee. But if we’re legally married, that covers everything automatically. All of it. Her future, her security, everything.

still found their way to each other like fate refused

would whoever cast that spell watch them living a happy life? The thought sent a shiver through her, but Voren’s presence

continued, his voice dropping lower, rougher with emotion and desire. "Just a courthouse, a few signatures, nobody outside of family has to know

cast that spell on you, I won’t be comfortable for you to attend the moon festival as a single woman. What if they cast another spell to break us apart again? I can’t lose you like

somewhere tender in Seraphine’s chest

real feelings always do when they’re true, spreading through her like liquid honey and making

all of it, and even if Voren wasn’t

and as much as she wanted to change Marigold’s name or add to it, that could wait. The blood test would just be paperwork catching up to what

the case, then Voren would still be her father too, because there

he’d never once looked at that child and seen himself in her. Which

had to marry Voren before the blood moon

to protect this growing fire between them, then she was ready for a second one. Ready to

lingering on his lips, the strong line of his throat. "Alright," she said, and the steadiness in her own voice surprised her a little. "We do it the human way. But it stays small. Just close family. I’ll make the list, and nobody who can’t