Alpha's Regret: The Seventh Time was Forever

Chapter 308: Alpha Jealousy

Seraphine blinked at him, then burst out laughing, a real, husky, disbelieving laugh that shook her shoulders, her chest rising and falling as the sound filled the space between them.

"That’s hilarious," she said, shaking her head slowly, still smiling through the lingering heat in her cheeks, her gaze dropping to his mouth. "Because I spent weeks begging you to do exactly that, Voren. Weeks. And every single time you chose his side."

"You made it so much harder for me." Seraphine tilted her head, eyes tracing his lips, his throat, the broad chest she wanted to press herself against, imagining his heartbeat under her palms. "Why now? What changed?"

Voren turned fully toward her, that slow, heated half-smile spreading across his face.

"Are you seriously asking me that?" His voice dropped lower, rougher, laced with heat and years of pent-up hunger. He leaned in closer, close enough that she could feel the warmth of his breath on her skin, his eyes dark with desire as they lingered on her lips. "You really don’t know why I kept fighting you all that time, Sera? Why I couldn’t let you win so easily?"

He let out a long breath, and something in the sound of it carried a lot of weight, heavy with years of bottled-up emotion that made her chest tighten just hearing it.

"There were always men around you. Always. Every fucking time I looked up, there was somebody new, somebody who seemed totally comfortable around you, who knew exactly how to make you laugh, who got to stand close enough to breathe in your scent while I was stuck on the outside looking in like a damn fool."

of his head, his

if there was more? Oh, even Damon. I envied how you could move on without a single guilt in your heart. That my love meant nothing

tone that sent warmth pooling between her thighs. "So, I decided

your whole campaign against me," she said

dark eyes

it, husky and laced with disbelief as she leaned

his hand drifting unconsciously nearer to her on the bed. "The things people were saying about you after, seemed believable because of how you treated me, which

time I pushed back hard, the second we were actually in the same space, something felt different. I couldn’t explain it. You weren’t what they said, and

was to pull you against me and kiss the anger right

me," she said carefully, her voice soft and intimate, like a caress. "They weren’t... it wasn’t like that at all. None of them ever touched me the way you did. None of them made my body

woman I couldn’t move on from, moving on so freely, especially when you introduced Leon as your man. I almost killed him, but I knew somehow that you two were just faking it.

climb into his lap and soothe every ache. "Then I saw your wolf. Sera—" He stopped. Like