Alpha's Regret: The Seventh Time was Forever

Chapter 1: Chapter 1 – She signed the divorce papers.

"Luna, Alpha Ravyn has sent another divorce agreement." Beta Corvine’s voice was careful, almost brittle, as if a single wrong word might shatter the air between them.

"He said he would reconsider if you agreed to accept Daisy as your co-Luna. He’s been telling the pack you’ll accept it anyway, that you love him too much to go through with a divorce and..."

Corvine froze, the rest of his sentence died in his throat. Luna Seraphine sat upright on the hospital bed, pale fingers steady as she signed her name at the bottom of the document. No hesitation or trembling. Just the quiet scratch of pen against paper.

For three months, this room had been her world. Sterile white walls, the low hum of healing machines. The sharp scent of antiseptic clinging to everything, and this was the seventh time divorce papers had found their way into her hands.

The first had come before Ravyn traveled to the Grimroot Pack with a suspicious condition. Either she allowed him to become the sole signatory to the pack’s accounts, or she signed the divorce.

The second arrived on their seventh wedding anniversary. He wanted Daisy, her former nanny’s daughter, to move into the pack house like when they were little.

The third came on Seraphine’s birthday. Daisy should become their son Bryan’s nanny, Ravyn said, so Seraphine could ’focus on pack duties.’

The fourth arrived on Alpha Ravyn’s own birthday, requesting Daisy as his personal assistant.

The fifth came after Daisy publicly humiliated her before the pack. Ravyn sent the papers and demanded Seraphine overlook the disrespect or accept the divorce.

The sixth arrived on their son, Bryan’s sixth birthday. Daisy should move into the Luna’s chamber, since Seraphine "never used it anyway."

Each time, Seraphine had torn the papers apart in front of the beta, her expression calm even as her heart cracked a little more.

When she had nearly lost her life saving the pack, exposed to a chemical attack that destroyed her health, she had expected some form of care, concern, or even pity.

Accept Daisy as co-Luna, and

Seraphine finally understood that this marriage

no longer worth saving. She

as he stared at the

number of perfection," she said quietly. "If something can’t be saved six times, it won’t be saved on the

world had changed. Packs were no longer isolated from humans. Werewolves

made shifting in public impossible, so the pack was

was a time when all werewolves far and

betas remained permanently behind, tasked with guarding the land and maintaining the

success rested on Luna Seraphine’s shoulders. Her strategies, negotiations, secret abilities, strengthened its

ever received from him was indifference, a punishment for a mistake in the past which was

for his attention, begging for his care, and waiting for affection that

and her son. After all, Bryan was the reason

peeled the sheet away and swung her legs over the side

gasped. "Luna! You

chemical exposure had left her paralyzed, even doctors had written her

she only endured it. After spending two months bedridden, she welcomed pain that came from walking on her

Two months confined to a bed and one month of slow recovery had given her more than enough time to think, and the

was like a cracked egg. No matter how carefully you tried, it

about her condition, leaving her to rot, but she lived by her own medical skills. "Tell

didn’t argue. Secretly, he was happy to see her resolve in walking away from the people unworthy

been the most powerful Luna the pack had ever known, except her own husband had

humans freely choose who they loved, the packs had envied them. The elders had begged the Moon Goddess

granted, and with it

Ravyn had no idea how complicated human love truly was, like the freedom to desire many, yet commit to one. Instead, he despised being bound to Seraphine. If that night had never