Alpha's Regret: The Seventh Time was Forever novel Chapter 539

Chapter 539: Chapter 539 – A proposal

Voren had never fully trusted Killian, not for a single day since their paths first crossed. The second he felt sure Seraphine could handle the leftover scraps of her old pack from inside the SUV, every bit of his focus locked onto Alpha Killian standing out there in the cold.

"You’re on my territory, and I don’t like it one bit," Voren said directly, Alpha Killian’s mouth pulled into a nervous smile that never reached his eyes.

As much as he feared Voren, it would be worse for him to walk away without getting the chance to have the princess on his side, so he put behind the consequence and squared his shoulders.

"Alpha Voren, Athaliah comes from the Silver Moon Pack. Since when does that put her inside your territory?" Before Voren could even open his mouth, Killian kept rolling.

It was as if a break in his words would drain the sudden adrenaline, he got to face Voren head on. "You really think I don’t see what you’re playing at? You want her for your Beta. That’s the only reason you handed Corvine the right title so he could go head-to-head with me."

A smug little curve twisted his lips. "But you’re off the mark. King Jaron’s sharper than that. He wants you married to Athaliah, not Corvine."

Suspicion flickered hard across Voren’s face. Killian arrived late to the moon festival, and he wasn’t the time he cared about pack politics so how did he get this information so fast?

"You talk like you’re not even one of the candidates yourself. Wouldn’t it mess you up if I’d taken her on?"

Killian smiled again, but the look in his eyes stayed cold and empty of any real humor. "Alpha Voren, you’re sitting so damn high up you can’t even see what’s crawling around underneath you. I suggest you climb down off that pedestal if you ever want to understand what’s really going on in the underworld."

To Killian, Voren has been focused on love matters and most spent his time at the human world to know all that had been going on behind his back.

That was why he wasn’t surprised by Voren’s move on Seraphine but what surprised him was all that Ravyn had done to his ex-wife.

However, things would have been okay if Voren had not made that announcement. If Voren wanted the kingship title, then Killian would gladly step down but how could he allow himself to lose to a beta? No way.

The more Voren listened, the more the uneasy feeling he had been carrying around for weeks tightened like a fist in his chest. Something was coming. He’d felt it for a long time now, a low constant pressure he still couldn’t put a name to.

He crossed his arms over his chest and stared at Killian without blinking once. "What makes you think I give a damn about whatever’s happening in this so-called underworld of yours?"

Killian was trying hard to read him but was failing badly at it. In the end, he could only try to annoy Voren a little to see what would come of it.

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