Alpha's Regret: The Seventh Time was Forever

Chapter 26 – are you planning to go beg her to come back?

There was a brief, unsettling silence at the other end of the line before Kevin finally spoke.

"It started when Marjorie withdrew her shares," he said carefully. "I don’t have concrete proof yet, but all signs point to her reinvesting with our competitors. It’s... it’s hitting us hard. Our finances are taking a real beating."

Ravyn’s grip tightened around his phone until his knuckles turned white, the plastic creaking faintly under the pressure. His jaw locked. Just as he had suspected, Seraphine, again.

This was indeed not something Kevin could handle because it was a personal matter between him and his ex-wife, the girl who used to look at him like he was his world.

The last time they met, she seemed like a completely different person, staring at him like she could take his very life in the next moment. "I’ll see you tomorrow," he said coldly.

He was about to end the call when something nagged at him. "Wait, what about her? Is she partnering with anyone?"

Kevin let out a short, humorless chuckle. "From what I’ve heard? No one wants to form any alliance with her, but she’s still causing us losses.

Mr. Ashkael circulated the information to the Sovereign Circle members. You should’ve received it too... didn’t you?"

The Sovereign Circle was an exclusive enclave reserved for the unimaginably wealthy and powerful, accessible only by invitation.

Every member was required to be worth no less than a hundred billion, no exceptions. It was a club Ravyn himself had helped build and yet, he hadn’t received the message.

bypassed him, there was only one explanation. "Tell me," Ravyn said quietly, dread seeping into his

thirty billion. But profits started dropping fast. Right

a split second, Ravyn

of a single shareholder pulling out. His ex-wife, and now, because he was five hundred million short of the qualification line, he had been silently

call Voren. They had been pioneers of the Circle together. Ravyn could still remember

eighty billion, arguing it would stabilize membership during volatile

he had insisted, was a fair line. A necessary pressure point to

proposal Ravyn initiated had later been written into the Circle’s laws exactly as Ravyn wanted it, and now, that same law had come

nothing short of bias. Worse—hypocrisy. The shame burned too deeply. "Alright,"

profits would keep bleeding out. When the call ended, Damon stepped closer, his expression alert. "Alpha... is everything alright in the

back and pulling a practiced smile onto his face. "Not really," he

adding, "I know it’s already

me properly, and I’ll

lips that made Ravyn pause but he pushed the feeling aside. He stepped away and dialed

on the third ring. "Ravyn? Why are

at Ravyn’s mouth. "Why didn’t you tell me Seraphine owned thirty-five percent of

Then Humphrey asked

a fist. "Dad.

after a moment. "But honestly, I forgot. From what I remember, she was quietly reinvesting everything she earned from her side jobs into the company,

wouldn’t have divorced her if you’d known?" Ravyn frowned deeply. "No. I would’ve just planned better. This blindsided me. I