Alpha's Regret: The Seventh Time was Forever novel Chapter 257

Chapter 257: Chapter 257 - What are you doing in Alpha Voren’s room?

Seraphine’s heart was doing something completely out of control inside her chest, loud and fast and totally traitorous, and the worst part was she was almost certain he could hear it. alpha wolves always could.

Heat crawled up the back of her neck, moved slow across her cheeks, and she hated every second of it. She pressed her palm flat against his chest and pushed, but he didn’t move.

He just stood there like the wall behind him had grown a heartbeat, solid and warm and completely unbothered, and her hand stayed right where she’d put it because pushing him was apparently just something that wasn’t going to happen tonight.

"Voren." Her voice came out lower than she wanted it to. "Let me go."

Something changed in him all at once.

He stepped back, but sudden, like a switch had flipped behind his eyes. He blinked once and the intensity that had been sitting all over his face a second ago just... lifted. He looked at her the way someone looks when they’ve just walked into a room and can’t remember why they came.

"I’m sorry." A small crease formed between his brows. "What just happened?"

Seraphine pressed her lips together and said nothing. She had a feeling that it hadn’t entirely been him. Bloodfang must have been behind it.

She turned away from him and finally got the door open. Ravyn and Daisy were standing right there in front of the door. Ravyn’s hand raised like he was just about to knock.

Daisy’s eyes went straight to Seraphine, and Voren right behind her, something sharp and calculating moving through her gaze before she could smooth it over.

"What are you doing in Alpha Voren’s room?" The question came out fast, her voice carrying that particular edge she liked to use when she wanted to make sure someone else was also paying attention. Her eyes cut sideways to Ravyn for just a fraction of a second.

Seraphine opened her mouth.

"I had her shower in my room." Voren’s voice rolled past her shoulder, flat and unbothered, and the weight of his attention landed on Daisy like something physical. "Do you have a problem with that?"

Daisy’s chin pulled back slightly. "No...no, I just remembered, Ravyn told everyone not to enter your room."

"Right." Voren stepped beside Seraphine, just enough to hold the space. "And since it’s my room, in this pack that isn’t mine, I decide who comes in and who doesn’t. Same courtesy Ravyn gets when he stays at Grimroot." His eyes stayed on Daisy’s face the whole time. "I’m sure you understood that the first time."

Daisy had heard the gossip when she woke up that hospital bed long after the punch Voren gave her, enough to collect every word that drifted through the ward.

How Voren had carried Seraphine through the rain on his back without a second thought. She’d rolled that image around in her head afterward, picking at it the way you pick at something that shouldn’t bother you but does.

Ravyn had never done that for her, making the thought cut through her chest before she could stop it.

She pulled her shoulders back and let a small, carefully placed smile rest on her mouth. "It’s just...you two look good together, that’s all." She paused intentionally, wanting Voren to refute it and loaded, "If you want her, I don’t think even the Alpha code could really—"

"Funny you should bring up wolves." Seraphine’s voice slid in clean and smooth, cutting straight across Daisy’s sentence like it had never existed. She tilted her head slightly, the picture of casual interest, her eyes moving to Ravyn. "Actually, Ravyn, have you ever seen Daisy’s wolf?"

The color left Daisy’s face so fast it was almost impressive.

Ravyn’s head turned. "What are you talking about?"

The air in the hallway tightened. Seraphine held Daisy’s gaze for exactly one long second for Daisy to understand that the only reason this conversation was stopping here was because Seraphine was choosing to stop it.