Alpha's Regret: The Seventh Time was Forever

Chapter 324: You saved me

Esperanza looked at the paper, then at her mother, then back at the drawing. A dramatic sigh escaped her tiny body, the expression so exaggerated that Seraphine almost laughed despite the tension.

"I can," the little girl said, sounding completely unimpressed. "But you have to believe everything I tell you."

Seraphine’s heart squeezed with emotion. After everything that had happened recently, she couldn’t imagine dismissing her daughter now. Not when these drawings were showing impossible things.

Not when every picture seemed tied to secrets no one should know. "I do believe you," she said softly. "I believe everything you tell me, sweetheart."

Relief washed over Esperanza’s face, as if she had been worried about exactly that. "Good." She settled comfortably against her pillows.

"Two women had babies on the same night." The childish voice felt strangely at odds with the disturbing story she was telling. "One of them went into labor naturally." She pointed toward one of the drawings. "The other one had doctors help the baby come out by inducement."

Seraphine’s stomach tightened. It was making sense how she and Daisy ended up giving birth the same night.

Esperanza continued without pause. "The woman in labor had a girl." Her finger moved to another spot. "The other woman had a boy."

The room suddenly felt colder. "The husband of the woman who had the girl didn’t want anybody to know." Her voice stayed calm and matter-of-fact, like she was simply describing her latest doll. "So he gave the baby girl to his Beta. And then he gave the baby boy to his legal wife."

A chill raced down Seraphine’s spine. The next words nearly stopped her heart completely. "He told the Beta to kill the baby girl."

that Esperanza’s dreams weren’t just dreams but revelations of both the past and present. This

man who looked exactly like Corvine. She picked it up so quickly that the papers nearly

before a woman hidden beneath a cloak. Her face was impossible to see, exactly the way Corvine had once

"The Beta didn’t kill the baby. He gave her to that woman instead." She pointed toward the cloaked figure. "She keeps appearing in my

her pulse pounding loudly in her ears. Dreams. Drawings. Babies exchanged. A hidden woman. Corvine. Ravyn. Everything

Esperanza with urgency. "Tell me something. How

let out a huge yawn. "Mommy." The

the storm raging inside her mind, Seraphine almost laughed. Only her daughter could

The answers weren’t going anywhere. Eventually she would

she said, a smile

was immediate and triumphant. Seraphine shook her head affectionately

did not let her. "I know. Just let me carry you like this."

show you the kitchen,"

answer. She just didn’t

everything is, though I don’t go

made Seraphine chuckle softly. The moment they stepped into the hallway, they found Jasmine already waiting nearby, true to her word. Jasmine immediately straightened. "I’ll take you there." Then

"Of course not." She genuinely meant it. She didn’t view Jasmine as competition or a

chosen, a woman trying her best to