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

excused himself quickly, shutting the door behind them and leaving the

find the solution to stabilizing his stocks or he might lose another or more shareholders. "Voren, I

needed help just as badly, maybe worse, but he swallowed his

soon as the stocks begin to recover, I’ll pay it back in full." Taking a loan from Voren was better than the

crossed Voren’s eyes, and he shook his head slowly.

He had not checked the news due to the

eaten through my servers, and my assistant suspects your ex-wife because

a brow.

said quickly, then frowned. "But Seraphine is all

what I thought," Voren agreed, then the realization struck

she turned out to be your anonymous investor," Voren continued slowly. "With that kind of money, she

dark revelation, both men fell silent, the implications settling in

confront her." His jaw tightened. "It’s starting to feel like she wants to destroy

the door burst open without a knock. "Sir," Pete said urgently, hurrying toward them, "you need to see this. Our stocks are plummeting because of the server issues, and the Stone Group

then he made

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

is your fault," Voren snapped. "You dragged me into a war with your crazy ex-wife