Alpha's Regret: The Seventh Time was Forever

Chapter 394 – Alpha Vladimir never suspected a thing

Corvine had always prided himself on being ready for anything life could throw at him. Years of navigating brutal pack politics, backstabbing betrayals, and total chaos had trained him to keep a cool head no matter how bad things got. But this? This hit him like a freight train he never saw coming.

For what felt like forever, he just stood there staring at Jasmine, his mind reeling as it tried to wrap itself around the bombshell she’d just dropped. The room felt suffocatingly quiet. Finally, he let out a long, shaky breath and rubbed a hand over his jaw, trying to ground himself.

"You’ve got to be fucking kidding me," he said, his voice low and rough with raw disbelief. His eyes bored into hers, searching for any sign that this was some kind of twisted joke. "You really understand what you’re saying here, right?"

Jasmine looked completely drained, not in her body, but deep in her soul, like someone who had been hauling around an unbearable weight for years and had finally let it crash to the ground. She drew in a deep breath, steadying herself before she kept going.

"My mother was a midwife in the Grimroot Pack," she began. "At least, that’s what she always told me." Her hands trembled as she clasped them together tightly in her lap. "The night Voren’s real mother went into labor happened to be the same night her twin sister showed up at the pack."

Corvine’s brows drew together slowly, his stomach already twisting into knots as the pieces started falling into place.

Jasmine nodded, her gaze dropping to the floor as painful memories flooded back. "From what my mom understood, the sisters hadn’t seen each other in ages. She was right there helping with the birth when Voren’s mother, her name was Oriana, died right after bringing him into the world."

tightened painfully. Jasmine swallowed hard, pushing forward. "After she passed, Oriana’s twin, Olivia, begged my mother not to tell Alpha Vladimir anything. My mom refused at first, but then Olivia... that’s the twin...

meet his, her voice thick with emotion. "Olivia was running for her life from an abusive

she saw

a trace of real humor in it. "My mother tried to stop her, but Olivia begged and begged. She said stepping into her sister’s life felt like a blessing straight from the Moon Goddess herself. She even promised my mom that if

the air between them. Jasmine’s fingers tightened until her knuckles went white. "That

single day to keep pretending like nothing had happened. But somehow, Alpha Vladimir never suspected a thing. When he saw Voren in Olivia’s arms, he just believed his wife had survived childbirth. She’d already raised a daughter

slip up and

fought back and stabbed him... but she didn’t know the knife had been coated in poison meant for war. He died, and she got banished for it." Jasmine’s eyes grew distant, lost in

pregnant with me. When I was six, she got really sick. She knew her time was running out, so she reached out to Luna Oriana and reminded her of that old promise, the favor she was

age. Looking back, it sounds completely ridiculous, but in our world, those kinds of promises carry real weight, especially when they’re

me like shit. The night the man

nightmare to herself a thousand times just to survive it. "I was twelve by then, and that’s how

chest. Jasmine turned back to him, her expression steadying again. "When I turned eighteen, I sent word to Luna Oriana, and that’s when she

she doesn’t know. She thinks my mother only told me about the marriage promise. She has no clue that I know everything, every secret, every