Alpha's Regret: The Seventh Time was Forever novel Chapter 274

Chapter 274: Chapter 274 – We kissed. It was...

Voren reached the passenger side of Corvine’s car right around the same time Corvine disappeared into the tree line, his clothes folded and left on the back seat, the car sitting quietly on the shoulder of the road with the hazards blinking.

He knocked on the window.

Seraphine took her time. She let a full five seconds pass before she rolled it down halfway, sunglasses still on, expression arranged into something between bored and annoyed.

"What now, Voren."

Not a question. A statement with a period at the end of it.

"We didn’t finish our conversation." His forearm rested on the roof of the car, casual, like he had all the time in the world. "You left before we could."

A slow breath pushed out through her nose. She was genuinely grateful for the sunglasses right now. They were doing a lot of work. "We kissed. It was a mistake because our wolves took over and made it happen. Done. Finished. Move on." She waved one hand lightly. "You can go now."

Something moved behind his eyes. Fast, then gone. His grip on the roof of the car tightened for just a second. "That’s really how you categorize it? Just like that?"

"Yes."

"So that’s how it goes whenever a man kisses you? Wolves did it, doesn’t count, next?"

Her head turned toward him slowly. The kind of slow that was its own warning. Her mouth opened —

"I didn’t even come here about the kiss." Voren cut in front of whatever she was about to say. "That’s not why I followed you."

He straightened up slightly, eyes on her face. "I wanted to tell you that whatever you decide to do about Ravyn, I’m behind it. All of it. You won’t have to look over your shoulder and wonder if I’m going to step in and complicate things. I won’t."

Seraphine went still.

She reached up and pulled the sunglasses off, just enough to actually look at him, to check his face for the angle, for the catch, for whatever was hiding underneath it. But his expression just sat there, open and steady, and it didn’t look like a setup.

"If that’s all you came to say." She put the glasses back on. "Then thank you."

Voren looked at her. He stood there for a moment and the thoughts running through his head had no clean way out through words.

She ran so hot and so cold that being around her felt like standing in a city where the weather changed every twenty minutes. Last night she had cried in his arms and let him hold her through it.

This morning she was looking at him like he was a mildly inconvenient stranger in her way.

’Don’t act surprised.’ Bloodfang’s voice was dry, unbothered, the tone of someone who had been watching and had already figured it out. ’You spent the first half of connecting with her being an idiot. What did you expect? And before you ask, no, I can’t tell you what she’s feeling right now. Her wolf locked herself away. I’ve got nothing.’

Voren exhaled quietly. 𝙛𝓻𝒆𝒆𝒘𝙚𝓫𝙣𝙤𝒗𝙚𝓵.𝙘𝙤𝙢

"Are you still standing there?" Seraphine’s voice came through the window without even turning to look at him.