Alpha's Regret: The Seventh Time was Forever

Chapter 374 - As long as we’re together, nothing else matters

What Oriana had left unsaid was that she and Vladimir had already met with the Alpha King in private long before any of this blew up.

They’d sworn their full support for the marriage alliance and had planned to show up at Athaliah’s dinner party with Voren, and ready to find Jasmine a strong match, hoping it would make up for letting her down so badly.

Back then, everything had felt straightforward and easy to control. Voren would step up and do what was expected, the alliance would lock into place, and their family’s power and reputation would stay rock solid.

But nothing had played out the way they’d imagined. Voren had shut the whole thing down without a second thought, making it brutally clear that no one was going to map out his future for him.

Even after that hard rejection, Oriana and Vladimir had still clung to the hope that they could fix things through Jasmine. Then Seraphine walked in, and everything shattered.

Jasmine wasn’t the same. Voren wasn’t the same. All those careful plans they’d spent months weaving together started unraveling piece by painful piece.

Now Oriana felt completely trapped by the promises she’d made. As a Luna, she’d built her whole life around keeping her word. She didn’t throw promises around lightly, and the idea of breaking them filled her with deep shame.

Showing up at that dinner party just to admit that none of what she’d guaranteed was actually going to happen? The humiliation burned in her chest like acid.

That was the real reason accepting Seraphine had torn her up inside. It was never just about the girl herself. It was about all the secrets, the hidden schemes, and the commitments they’d made behind Voren’s back while thinking they were shielding him.

kept completely in the dark because of how fiercely loyal he was to

something, the whole world could line up against him and he still

amount of words could stop him until for whatever reason, he broke things off himself, only to return with a child from

she stared at Seraphine, the weight of it all pressing down on

against me," she said, her voice thick with hurt. "Nothing I say even matters

Voren one final time, a flash of deep pain twisting across her face before she shoved

that human girl you almost married, Seraphine could also walk away from you tomorrow, run straight into another man’s arms after

so tightly the fabric bunched up. For a moment it looked like she might pour out even more of the storm raging inside her, but instead she pulled

walked out. The door clicked shut

silence crashed over the room. Voren stood there frozen for a long moment, his jaw locked so tight the muscles in his face jumped and twitched with

fierce strength, protective and almost desperate, like he was afraid the world might

"I had no clue she was going to show up like that."

thud of his heartbeat. "She was already in the room before I even woke up," she whispered, her fingers curling tightly into his shirt. "There wasn’t

imagination, but then it came again, clearer this time. Her

head to look at

face in the crook of her neck, dropping every wall he usually kept