Alpha's Regret: The Seventh Time was Forever novel Chapter 324

Chapter 324: Chapter 324 – You saved me

Esperanza looked at the paper, then at her mother, then back at the drawing. A dramatic sigh escaped her tiny body, the expression so exaggerated that Seraphine almost laughed despite the tension.

"I can," the little girl said, sounding completely unimpressed. "But you have to believe everything I tell you."

Seraphine’s heart squeezed with emotion. After everything that had happened recently, she couldn’t imagine dismissing her daughter now. Not when these drawings were showing impossible things.

Not when every picture seemed tied to secrets no one should know. "I do believe you," she said softly. "I believe everything you tell me, sweetheart."

Relief washed over Esperanza’s face, as if she had been worried about exactly that. "Good." She settled comfortably against her pillows.

"Two women had babies on the same night." The childish voice felt strangely at odds with the disturbing story she was telling. "One of them went into labor naturally." She pointed toward one of the drawings. "The other one had doctors help the baby come out by inducement."

Seraphine’s stomach tightened. It was making sense how she and Daisy ended up giving birth the same night.

Esperanza continued without pause. "The woman in labor had a girl." Her finger moved to another spot. "The other woman had a boy."

The room suddenly felt colder. "The husband of the woman who had the girl didn’t want anybody to know." Her voice stayed calm and matter-of-fact, like she was simply describing her latest doll. "So he gave the baby girl to his Beta. And then he gave the baby boy to his legal wife."

A chill raced down Seraphine’s spine. The next words nearly stopped her heart completely. "He told the Beta to kill the baby girl."

The drawing trembled in Seraphine’s hands. Color drained from her face, and her breathing became uneven. Every instinct inside her screamed that Esperanza’s dreams weren’t just dreams but revelations of both the past and present. This could also mean that Esperanza might grow up with unique powers as a gifted child.

Her eyes darted toward another drawing, the one showing a man who looked exactly like Corvine. She picked it up so quickly that the papers nearly slipped from her fingers.

The image showed him holding a baby, standing before a woman hidden beneath a cloak. Her face was impossible to see, exactly the way Corvine had once described it. Fear mixed with fragile hope inside her chest. "Then what about this one?" Her voice barely sounded like her own.

Esperanza glanced at the picture. "Oh." A small smile appeared on her face. "The Beta didn’t kill the baby. He gave her to that woman instead." She pointed toward the cloaked figure. "She keeps appearing in my dreams."

The room seemed to tilt. Seraphine suddenly found it difficult to breathe, her pulse pounding loudly in her ears. Dreams. Drawings. Babies exchanged. A hidden woman. Corvine. Ravyn. Everything was beginning to connect, yet there was nothing about Coco or Voren yet. 𝓯𝙧𝓮𝓮𝒘𝓮𝙗𝙣𝒐𝒗𝒆𝓵.𝓬𝓸𝒎

Her gaze snapped toward Esperanza with urgency. "Tell me something. How did you get to Daddy?"

Esperanza immediately stretched her arms over her head and let out a huge yawn. "Mommy." The dramatic tone returned. "Esperanza is hungry." Another yawn followed. "Very hungry. Pancakes first."

Despite the storm raging inside her mind, Seraphine almost laughed. Only her daughter could casually hold life-changing answers hostage in exchange for breakfast.

She took a slow, steadying breath, then another, trying to calm herself. The answers weren’t going anywhere. Eventually she would learn everything. But right now, her daughter mattered more than anything else.

"Okay," she said, a smile finally breaking through. "Pancakes first."

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