Alpha's Regret: The Seventh Time was Forever

Chapter 37 - your crazy ex-wife and now she’s coming for me too

"Sir... what if it’s that woman from yesterday?" Pete asked carefully, his voice low and measured, as though afraid the walls themselves might overhear. He swallowed, seeing no reaction from his boss, and added, "She gave you twenty-four hours, and the servers started collapsing right on time."

Voren froze this time. It was the first time since the crisis began that his composure cracked.

The room, once filled with frantic motion and overlapping voices, seemed to shrink around him as doubt crept in, cold, invasive, and unwelcome.

His mind reeled back to Seraphine’s calm, almost amused expression when she had issued that warning. Twenty-four hours, precise, and yet unyielding.

Could it really be her? No, Voren clenched his jaw. That was impossible. Seraphine had always been pack business, politics, power, loyalty, but not this.

Not cyber warfare and collapsing systems. Still, disbelief did not erase coincidence, and the timing was too clean to ignore. "It won’t hurt to confirm," he muttered under his breath, but aloud, he straightened and said, "excuse me for a moment."

Pete nodded immediately and exited the conference room, closing the doors behind him. The silence that followed was heavy, as Voren reached for his phone and dialed Ravyn’s number.

To his surprise, the call connected almost instantly, and Ravyn sounded exhausted. "Voren," Ravyn said, his voice strained. "I was just about to come see you."

Voren paused. Under normal circumstances, he would have welcomed the visit without hesitation. Now, with his empire bleeding in real time, he wasn’t sure whether this was good timing or catastrophic.

Still, Ravyn was a seasoned CEO. If anyone could offer insight, it was him. "Alright," Voren said carefully. "I’ll put my reason for calling on hold. Where are you right now?"

few minutes away," Ravyn replied in the same tone of urgency.

before Pete returned, leading Ravyn into the conference room. He excused

time with pleasantries. He needed to find the solution to stabilizing his stocks or he might

bitter. He needed help just as badly, maybe worse, but he swallowed his urgency,

recover, I’ll pay it back in full." Taking a loan from Voren was better than

Voren’s eyes, and he shook his head slowly. "Even if I wanted

frowned. "Why?" He had not checked the news due to the pressure he

ex-wife because she came to warn me when I went

stiffened. "Seraphine?" His shock was genuine. Voren lifted a brow. "Is there another

Seraphine is all pack business. What does

Voren agreed, then the

Voren continued slowly. "With that kind of money, she

between them like a dark revelation, both men fell silent, the implications settling in with disturbing

said finally. "We should confront her." His jaw tightened. "It’s starting to feel like she wants

Pete said urgently, hurrying toward them, "you need to see this. Our stocks are

if catching his breath, then he made the final revelation. "Their

Voren’s face, and for a moment, he couldn’t feel his hands. Goosebumps rippled across his skin as he turned sharply

into a war