Alpha's Regret: The Seventh Time was Forever novel Chapter 292

Chapter 292: Chapter 292 - I miss us so much

"V?"

The nickname just slipped out of her mouth, feeling all old and familiar, and Voren froze right there in place.

He let the word hang between them, turning it around in his head like some old coin he hadn’t come across in forever.

A slow smile spread across his face, the soft and private kind that you can’t force or pretend at all.

"You used to call me that back when we were younger." His voice got really low, like he was mostly saying it to himself instead of her. "Do you remember any of that stuff?"

Seraphine’s cheeks heated up quick. She glanced away from him, over toward the window or anywhere else that wasn’t right at his face. "I wish I did, honestly. I heard myself say it in one of those videos and it just came out like that. It sounded right to me."

She tugged at the bottom of her sleeve, messing with the fabric a bit. "But that’s exactly the thing I keep trying to work out. Why you started hating me. Like, what actually went down between us? Because something definitely did happen, and nobody’s giving me any real answers about it."

Voren stayed quiet for a little while. Instead, he reached out and wrapped his hand gently around her arm, nothing pushy about it, just all warm and steady, and he guided her slowly over toward the bed.

He flopped down onto his back with his arms relaxed at his sides, then tilted his chin toward the empty spot right next to him.

"Come on. Lie down. It’s way more comfortable talking like this anyway."

Seraphine had already started moving to join him when something suddenly clicked in her brain. She stopped right in the middle of it.

"Wait, I need to shower first. I’ll just use the guest bathroom, it’s no big deal."

"Sera." The way he said her name came out different this time, quieter and like it took some effort from him. "Just be comfortable around me, okay? I miss this. I miss us so much."

Something tightened up inside her chest when he said that.

Seraphine wanted so badly to dig into all the details, to pull the entire story right out of him and finally get why her memory had these massive black holes everywhere. But every time she got close to that kind of door in her mind, her head would start pounding hard like it was trying to shield her from whatever was back there.

She pushed the feeling way down and went to find the bathroom.

She pushed the door open and stopped completely in her tracks.

"Why is this bathroom so huge?" Her voice bounced around the tiles, echoing all over the place.

From the bedroom, she heard Voren laugh out loud, a real genuine laugh, not anything polite or put on. "Because I love to actually relax in there. Take your time, no rush at all."

She stepped inside and let the door fall almost shut behind her. The shower was massive, with multiple heads spraying from all different angles, warm stone floors that felt nice underfoot, and lighting that was soft enough it made if feel like she was just relaxing in her room.

It was ridiculous, honestly. Rich people really lived in another world.

She turned the water on hot and stepped right in under the spray.

In the bedroom, Voren lay there staring up at the ceiling, just listening to the steady sound of the water running through the pipes.

A quiet look settled over his face, something hard to read, like a man sitting with emotions he’d carried around for years and had finally stopped trying to put into any kind of explanation.

"Sera." His voice was barely above a breath. "I lost you once before. That’s not happening again, not ever," he vowed to himself, his jaw tightened just a little bit. "This time you’re stuck with me. For good and all."

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