Alpha's Regret: The Seventh Time was Forever

Chapter 306: You don’t go around kissing your friends

Seraphine tried to turn her head away. If she could just stop staring right at him, maybe she could think clearly.

Maybe she could get her balance back. But he was right there, that sharp jawline, those eyes that had always noticed way too much. He wasn’t about to let her hide inside her own thoughts this time.

"Two days ago," she started, grabbing onto the first real thing she could find, "you asked me to be your friend. Two days, Voren. And now you’re here asking me to be your woman?"

She figured that might make him pause, but it didn’t.

The corner of his mouth lifted just a bit, not a full smile, more like he was pulling back some kind of curtain.

"Asking you to be my friend was really just my way of getting you through the door." His voice got even lower. "You don’t go around kissing your friends, do you, Sera?"

Heat started creeping up the back of her neck and settled into her ears. She knew he could feel it too, the way his eyes dropped to her face and stayed right there.

"Our first kiss," he went on, like he’d gone over this in his head a thousand times or maybe just carried it around long enough that it came out clear and sure, "wasn’t our wolves messing around."

"Bloodfang wanted things I wouldn’t go for. Things I wasn’t about to take from you unless you actually chose them. But that kiss, I let it happen because I wanted it to. Not because my wolf forced anything on me. Because I really wanted to."

same for you. You’re not the kind of woman who lets some guy she doesn’t feel anything for put his mouth

those words crashing into every wall she had quietly put

frustrating part. She had never once in her life let a man get that close if there wasn’t something

the choice herself first. And Voren knew it. He had always understood her, even

find

you had pulled away the second our lips touched," Voren cut in quietly. "I would’ve walked away. I would’ve told myself I got it all wrong and I would’ve let you go. But you didn’t pull away, Sera. You responded to it. And the moment you did, I

went completely calm. "You just hadn’t caught up to

back right

settling into the

bit more space to breathe, but his eyes stayed locked right on hers. "We’re a lot alike, you and me. We’ve both gotten really good at burying

between them

Maybe she’ll finally get some room to breathe." His voice got

all kinds of stuff about you that I won’t even repeat. Things that made me want to punch him in

down the divorce. You sat there and let him keep all the authority over the pack’s accounts. You let him take pieces of you away bit by bit and you

up. She

is it, this is the one

breaking. And I started wondering if maybe the real problem wasn’t you at all. Maybe the problem was me,

I’d rather stay alone than end up as somebody’s second choice. I wasn’t going to be