Alpha's Regret: The Seventh Time was Forever novel Chapter 306

Chapter 306: Chapter 306 - You don’t go around kissing your friends

Seraphine tried to turn her head away. If she could just stop staring right at him, maybe she could think clearly.

Maybe she could get her balance back. But he was right there, that sharp jawline, those eyes that had always noticed way too much. He wasn’t about to let her hide inside her own thoughts this time.

"Two days ago," she started, grabbing onto the first real thing she could find, "you asked me to be your friend. Two days, Voren. And now you’re here asking me to be your woman?"

She figured that might make him pause, but it didn’t.

The corner of his mouth lifted just a bit, not a full smile, more like he was pulling back some kind of curtain.

"Asking you to be my friend was really just my way of getting you through the door." His voice got even lower. "You don’t go around kissing your friends, do you, Sera?"

Heat started creeping up the back of her neck and settled into her ears. She knew he could feel it too, the way his eyes dropped to her face and stayed right there.

"Our first kiss," he went on, like he’d gone over this in his head a thousand times or maybe just carried it around long enough that it came out clear and sure, "wasn’t our wolves messing around."

"Bloodfang wanted things I wouldn’t go for. Things I wasn’t about to take from you unless you actually chose them. But that kiss, I let it happen because I wanted it to. Not because my wolf forced anything on me. Because I really wanted to."

He paused, his gaze never leaving hers. "And you know deep down it was the same for you. You’re not the kind of woman who lets some guy she doesn’t feel anything for put his mouth on hers."

Seraphine felt those words crashing into every wall she had quietly put up around herself over the years.

She couldn’t really argue with him. That was the frustrating part. She had never once in her life let a man get that close if there wasn’t something real there.

Seraphine had never been that kind of woman, the type who just let stuff happen without making the choice herself first. And Voren knew it. He had always understood her, even back when she figured she was pretty much invisible to him.

She parted her lips, trying to find something to say, anything at all. "I..."

"If you had pulled away the second our lips touched," Voren cut in quietly. "I would’ve walked away. I would’ve told myself I got it all wrong and I would’ve let you go. But you didn’t pull away, Sera. You responded to it. And the moment you did, I knew."

Something deep in his eyes went completely calm. "You just hadn’t caught up to it in your head yet."

"I tried to pull back right after," she said quickly.

His expression changed, something dry and understanding settling into the lines of his face. "So did I. Every single time."

He pushed himself up a little, giving her a bit more space to breathe, but his eyes stayed locked right on hers. "We’re a lot alike, you and me. We’ve both gotten really good at burying what we actually feel and trying to call it something else."

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