Alpha's Regret: The Seventh Time was Forever novel Chapter 296

Chapter 296: Chapter 296 - Someone who looked like you

Voren walked back over to the bed and lay down beside her again, both of them back to looking up at the soft light from above.

"I’m not gonna sugarcoat it for you. I was already in so much pain, and that story just fed right into everything the angry side of me wanted to hear about you. Like you were so obsessed with Ravyn that you didn’t even recognize who you were anymore."

Seraphine swallowed hard but stayed silent, just listening.

"You went back to school after that. Then the news hit that you were pregnant." His voice broke a little on that last word before he caught himself.

"You put your medical program on hold and headed back to the pack to finish things there. I heard about it all from Ravyn, and I just... I completely fell apart, Sera. Something inside me snapped for real."

Seraphine wanted so badly to turn and look at his face. The way his voice cracked open told her so much more than the actual words, and she wished she could see it all, but the heavy weight of shame kept her right where she was, staring up.

"I can’t go back and fix any of it," she said gently. "None of it. Ravyn was my biggest mistake, and I know that now. Honestly, I knew it even before it ended. But knowing that doesn’t erase what happened."

"I know." The way Voren said it carried a deep bitterness mixed with a kind of tired acceptance, like someone who’d learned to live with an old injury but still felt it ache when the weather changed.

He stayed quiet for a bit, the chandelier casting its gentle, broken light across their faces. "That’s exactly why you need to hear what came next because it wasn’t nothing, and I’m not gonna act like it was."

Seraphine turned onto her side.

She couldn’t stop herself. Something in how he said it pulled her eyes right to him. She studied the sharp line of his jaw and the way he kept staring up at the ceiling like it might give him the answers he needed.

"What are you talking about, V?"

He could feel her watching him. His hand reached for the remote on the nightstand without even looking, fingers wrapping around it a little tighter than usual.

"I’d rather you lie back like you were before," he said. It wasn’t quite a request, but it wasn’t bossy either. Somewhere right in between.

Seraphine didn’t move at first. Then she heard it, a soft, clear click. The lock on the bedroom door turning.

Her eyes darted to the door and then back to him.

"Why’d you just lock that?"

He rested the remote on his chest, still holding onto it, and kept staring at the chandelier. "So if what I’m about to say upsets you, you won’t leave before I get it all out."

The room suddenly felt a bit smaller and more closed in.

Seraphine glanced at the door one more time, then back up at the ceiling. She made herself breathe steady and normal.

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