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."

screamed that Esperanza’s dreams weren’t just dreams but revelations of both the past and present. This could also mean that Esperanza might grow up with unique

darted toward another drawing, the one showing a man who looked exactly like Corvine. She picked it up so quickly that the papers nearly

image showed him holding a baby, standing before a woman hidden beneath a cloak. Her face was impossible to see, exactly the way Corvine had once described it. Fear mixed with fragile hope inside her chest. "Then what about this

on her face. "The Beta didn’t kill the baby. He gave her to that

suddenly found it difficult to breathe, her pulse pounding loudly in her ears. Dreams. Drawings. Babies exchanged. A hidden woman. Corvine. Ravyn. Everything was beginning to connect, yet

gaze snapped toward Esperanza with urgency. "Tell me something. How did you

immediately stretched her arms over her head and let out a huge yawn. "Mommy." The dramatic tone returned. "Esperanza is hungry." Another yawn followed. "Very

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

calm herself. The answers weren’t going anywhere. Eventually she would learn everything. But right

a smile

on Esperanza’s face was immediate and triumphant. Seraphine shook

"I know. Just let me carry you

you the kitchen," Esperanza

knowing the answer. She just didn’t want to ran out of

Esperanza nodded. "I know where everything is, though I don’t go

Jasmine already waiting nearby, true to her word. Jasmine immediately straightened. "I’ll take you

away. "Of course not." She genuinely meant it. She

struggling with feelings she hadn’t chosen, a woman trying her best to navigate emotions that were becoming increasingly difficult to hide. Nothing