Alpha's Regret: The Seventh Time was Forever

Chapter 425 – A different kind of sacrifice

Everyone on the deck became even more attentive, leaning in slightly.

"The night I gave birth..." Her expression grew distant, lost in the memory. "I immediately knew something was wrong." She looked at Seraphine with deep emotion. "I noticed my baby had been switched."

Gasps spread across the deck like wildfire.

"I knew because of the moon mark." Her voice remained steady. "My daughter carried it. When I looked inside the crib, I found another baby." She smiled sadly. "A little girl who wasn’t mine."

Her eyes filled with warmth. "But she still needed someone to love her, so I named her Daisy. That’s the name I always wanted to give my Daughter because I love the Daisy flower."

Kylie frowned deeply, confusion covering her face. "I was there. I never left for long." She looked completely lost. "So how did Noelle manage to switch the babies?"

Madison slowly shook her head. "I honestly don’t know. I’ve wondered about that for years." She looked down briefly. "But something inside me kept telling me the truth. My daughter wasn’t safe with me." She glanced toward Seraphine. "She had inherited the bright blue eyes. The very eyes those creatures had been hunting for."

Madison’s voice became softer, full of pain and love. "Then... Noelle came to me two years later." Everyone watched her carefully. "She made me an offer." Madison smiled bitterly.

"She asked me to become her child’s nanny. She also told me to reduce Daisy’s age by one year. I never understood why." She sighed quietly. "But the moment I entered the pack house, I knew." Her voice became certain. "She was the one who had switched the babies."

told me." Her voice carried both

"You loved her, and she was growing up as the Beta’s daughter. That life was much closer to what she was born into." She looked proudly at Seraphine. "She was raised with honor, with discipline, and leadership, just as the granddaughter of

Many days when her

accepted every insult, swallowed every bit of pain she inflicted on my daughter." Her eyes became wet with tears again. "Because every harsh word reminded me of one thing." She looked at Seraphine with nothing but pure, unbreakable love. "My daughter was safer pretending to be a

reasoning. The sacrifices she had made

explanation, but one question still bothered him deeply. He looked directly at Madison. "If you knew all of this..." His voice was calm but

Humphrey. Every single person on the deck desperately wanted to hear her

the deck, her gaze finally settling on Seraphine

my position would’ve made the same choice." Her voice carried years of heavy guilt and regret. "I only

the memories clearly painful. "And from the very beginning, you wanted to help." Her eyes softened with love. "You were such a loving

I knew she’d switched the babies. If she found out, I had no idea what she would’ve done." Her shoulders slumped under the weight of it all. "So I allowed you to suffer a little because I

into Seraphine’s eyes, her voice breaking. "I never enjoyed watching you suffer. As your mother, I would rather let my daughter endure

creatures would find us again. I still don’t know what they wanted from our family." Her

furrowed. "You couldn’t..." His sharp eyes stayed locked

froze. She immediately realized she had chosen the wrong words. A helpless smile appeared on her face. "I guess...

where I was." Her fingers tightened together anxiously. "I hardly ever