Alpha's Regret: The Seventh Time was Forever Chapter 270 – Co-Luna Is My Woman and Bryan

Raul’s smile hadn’t moved. It sat on his face like he’d earned it, wide and loose and completely sure of itself.

"Co-Luna is my woman." He said it the way people say things they’ve been holding onto for too long, finally getting to set it down in front of soone. "And Bryan is my son." He let that land before continuing. "Play along, keep your mouth shut around Co-Luna, and nothing has to happen to you. Simple as that."

Damon stood very still.

It was the kind of still that happens when your body is processing sothing faster than your face can keep up with.

The cold moved through him slow and thorough, starting sowhere in his chest and spreading outward. He wanted to grab Raul by the collar. He wanted to do considerably worse than that. But Seraphine’s voice lived in the back of his head the way it always did when he was about to do sothing she’d want him to hold off on.

Wait, it said. Not yet.

He breathed through it.

The moon festival. That was the window. With Alpha Voren being a coward, it could be a great opportunity to bring Seraphine back to the pack to expose all of Daisy’s evil deeds.

He kept his expression easy. Unbothered. The kind of face that gave Raul exactly what he wanted to see.

"To keep your secret," Damon said, his voice perfectly level, "make sure Co-Luna never finds out that I know anything."

Raul’s chest expanded. He looked like a man who’d just won sothing.

"I knew I could trust you." He stretched the words out, satisfied and slow. "This stays right here between us."

Damon held the smile until he was outside. The door shut behind him and the smile was gone before he reached the bottom step.

He kept walking, past the road, past the treeline, deeper into the woods until the nearest house was far enough behind him that sound stopped traveling cleanly.

Then he pulled out his phone. He was about to call Seraphine when he rembered sothing important, and mind linked one of the warriors.

I need you watching Raul from tonight. He was one of the pack’s strongest warriors, a man he trusted more than most. Everything. What he eats, who cos to his door, where he goes, what ti he sleeps. I want it all.

Yes, Beta Damon. The response ca back clean and fast.

And keep it off the Alpha’s radar. Damon added before closing the link. He has enough pulling at him right now. This one stays with .

He walked another hundred yards deeper into the woods, found a spot where the wind moved through at the right angle to carry sound away rather than toward, and dialed.

One ring. "Sera, you are not going to believe this."

"Nothing surprises anymore." Seraphine’s voice ca back dry and tired in the particular way that ant she’d already been through too much tonight to brace for impact. "Just say it."

On her end, Voren sat forward on the couch without making a sound. His elbows went to his knees and his eyes went to her face, reading everything she wasn’t saying out loud.

Damon pulled in a slow breath. He had the words. They just weren’t moving.

"Damon." Seraphine’s voice dropped a note. "You know better than to hold back on . Unless you’re telling I’ve been wrong to trust you all this ti."

"That’s not it." The words ca out quick and firm. "I just needed to make sure nobody was on this line that shouldn’t be. Last ti we talked, Alpha Voren was listening in before either of us knew it."

There was a beat of quiet from Seraphine’s end. "I understand that." Her voice softened just slightly around the edges. "Take your ti."

There was another pause before Damon made the revelation. "Raul is Bryan’s biological father."

The room didn’t make a sound.

Then Voren’s voice cut straight through the phone speaker, too loud, too fast, no filter on it at all. "No way."

A long exhale ca through from Damon’s end. "Sera." The disappointnt in his voice was quiet but present. "Has he been on this call the whole ti?"

Seraphine closed her eyes for exactly one second. How to explain Voren. Where to even begin with that. "He’s the one who pulled the information out of the rogue tonight. He was ready to drive straight to the pack himself and I couldn’t have that, so I called you instead."

She glanced sideways without fully turning her head. "I need Ravyn out of this for now."

"And you’re confident that Alpha Voren won’t—" Damon stopped himself. Cut the sentence clean. After that encounter in his room with Voren earlier, he knew the man was more dangerous than t the eyes.

"Forget it. If you say he’s good then I’ll take that." He adjusted his weight against the tree at his back. "But I’ve been thinking about timing."

"Go ahead," Seraphine encouraged him.

"The moon festival." He said it and let it breathe. "If you’re ever going to bring Daisy’s whole operation into the light, that’s the room to do it in. Everyone who needs to see it would be standing right there."

Seraphine had already been circling that idea before he said it out loud. But sothing snagged on it every ti she got close.

"I haven’t found my daughter yet." Her voice went quiet and flat and certain all at once. "Until she’s in my arms and I know she’s safe, Ravyn can sit in whatever ss Daisy has built around him. He built so of it himself."

"So if you find her before the festival, you’d co?"

"I’d co." No hesitation. "But she stays hidden. Ravyn doesn’t find out she exists. I will never let him put his hands on soone he decided didn’t deserve to live." The last few words ca out harder than the rest, the kind of hard that cos from sowhere old and deep. "Never."

The call ended, and the room settled back into quiet.

Voren stayed where he was on the couch, forearms on his knees, eyes on Seraphine. He watched her set the phone down carefully, like she was buying herself two extra seconds.

"I heard you," he said. "I understand every single reason you have." He waited until she looked at him. "But Ravyn deserves to know the truth about his son. He deserves the chance to throw Daisy out of his life for good."