Alpha's Regret: The Seventh Time was Forever novel Chapter 295

Chapter 295: Chapter 295 – The first time Voren cried

Seraphine’s mouth had fallen open just a bit. The picture of her own life that she’d been carrying around for years was quietly rearranging itself in her head, and she wasn’t sure yet what it would look like once everything finally settled into place.

"You were incredible out there, by the way," Voren started. "Smarter than almost everyone in your year group, same as me in business engineering, and I wasn’t surprised at all."

"I had another plan for your graduation," Voren said, and something in his tone changed, a weight coming back into it.

"I thought four years away from the pack, away from Ravyn, that distance would have cleared your stupid obsession out of your system. I told myself that by the time you crossed that stage, you’d have moved on. That there’d finally be an opening for us again."

He stayed quiet for a beat. "I had the whole thing mapped out in my head."

Then his voice changed again. Careful now. Like he was picking out each word with extra thought.

"But during one of the long vacation breaks, there was a full moon festival. And you went back to the pack because you could not forget Ravyn right?"

Seraphine felt something tighten up in her stomach before he even finished the sentence.

"And that’s when Ravyn came to me." His eyes went back to the ceiling, but his jaw had gone tight. "He told me that you had lured him to bed."

"That’s not true."

The words came out of her sharp and immediate, with no hesitation at all. Seraphine’s voice cracked on the last syllable, and she let it happen, didn’t bother trying to hold it together.

The tears that had been threatening finally slipped loose and ran sideways down her temple as she lay there, staring up at the ceiling.

"I was drugged."

The room went very quiet.

Voren turned onto his side slowly, propping himself up on one arm, and looked down at her.

Everything he’d been about to say, all of it about how Marigold’s mother came into the picture, the explanation he’d been building toward, just stopped somewhere in his throat and wouldn’t come out.

Because her face wasn’t the face of someone reaching for an excuse. Her eyes were wet and open and exhausted, the kind of exhausted that lives deep in a person for years before they finally put it into words out loud.

His expression changed. The careful control he usually kept over his face gave way to something raw and unguarded, something that looked a lot like a man realizing he’d been handed a completely different story than the one he’d been told all this time.

"You were drugged." He repeated it back to her quietly, not exactly as a question, but like he needed to hear the words out in the air between them to really understand them.

"How?" His voice came out lower than he meant it to. "Sera, how did that happen?"

"I didn’t know myself," Seraphine started right there with that honest confession, because it felt like the realest place to kick things off. Her voice came out quiet but steady, the kind of steady that takes real effort to keep together. 𝐟𝐫𝕖𝗲𝘄𝚎𝗯𝕟𝐨𝕧𝐞𝚕.𝕔𝕠𝐦

Lying there on their backs helped a lot. Both of them staring up at the chandelier instead of facing each other created just enough space to actually get the tough words out.

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