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.

new condition. Accept Daisy as co-Luna, and that was the

understood that this marriage had

chances, all wasted. Whatever remained was no longer worth saving. She would take her son and

finally breathed, eyes wide as he stared at the

is the number of

changed. Packs were no longer isolated from humans. Werewolves blended in, worked among them, built corporations and empires in their

shifting in public impossible, so the

a time when all werewolves far and near

pack member worked outside the territory now. Only the omegas, Lunas, and betas remained permanently behind, tasked with guarding the land and maintaining the heart of the

in New York City. Few knew that much of that success rested on Luna Seraphine’s shoulders. Her strategies, negotiations, secret abilities,

had ever received from him was indifference, a punishment for

was tired of fighting for his attention, begging for his care,

just her and her son. After all, Bryan was the reason this marriage had existed in

and swung her legs over the

gasped. "Luna!

paralyzed, even doctors

only endured it. After spending two months bedridden, she

into a smirk, but she said nothing. Two months confined to a bed and one month of slow recovery

cracked egg. No matter how carefully you tried, it could never be

"Tell Ravyn," she said calmly, "that a co-Luna won’t be

Secretly, he was happy to see her resolve in walking away from the people

had ever known, except her own husband had never acknowledged it. Their union had been

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

was granted, and with it came lust, infidelity, and

idea how complicated human love truly was, like the freedom to desire many, yet commit to one. Instead, he despised