Alpha's Regret: The Seventh Time was Forever

Chapter 55 – leave and never come back

Seraphine stared at him with an expression so composed it almost felt amusing, as though she were daring him to crack first. "Who else do you think I should give it to," she asked evenly, her gaze steady and unblinking. "You?"

Ravyn felt bile rise sharply in his throat, the sour taste settling at the back of his tongue as he struggled to keep his composure.

He hated that she still had this effect on him, hated that a few carefully chosen words from her could make him feel cornered. Still, he forced himself to speak, his voice strained but firm as he laid out his condition.

"After you receive the money, I want every single trace of that video destroyed. I don’t want copies, backups, or anything that can ever resurface."

Seraphine’s lips curved upward slowly, her smile filled with disbelief and sharp amusement. "Oh," she said lightly, tilting her head, "that will cost you another five billion."

The words landed heavier than she had expected, not on him but on herself. She had originally planned to delete the video and erase everything connected to Daisy once the money exchanged hands, but that had been before her conversation with Humphrey.

Now, armed with new leverage and a clearer sense of how deep Ravyn’s fear truly ran, she found herself unwilling to show mercy. Ruthlessness, she had learned, was the only language men like him truly understood.

Ravyn looked as though he had completely lost his mind, his face pale and his eyes glassy, yet he couldn’t even bring himself to protest out loud.

For the first time since she had known him, Seraphine saw unfiltered fear in his eyes, raw and undeniable, and the fact that Voren was not standing beside him to shield him or clean up his mess made the moment all the more satisfying.

can’t get over the fact that I could never love you,

the room. "Ravyn," she said between breaths, "whatever love I had for you died a few months

genuinely wondering how she had ever convinced herself

out. Ravyn stared at her as if she were speaking in a language he did not understand, confusion clouding his expression. "Then why," he asked slowly, "did you stay

tell you why," Seraphine replied, her tone shifting, the humor draining from her face as seriousness

we were completely incompatible, but I was already pregnant, so I stayed for Bryan. I wanted him to grow up believing he had a perfect family, so I kept reminding myself of my mother’s words, that seven

leave quietly, without a fight," she said, then added coldly, "but you just had to show me how ruthless you truly are. You killed my child and then forced me to raise

you wake my child from the ashes, I will never stop making your life a living

child at all. He should have lied, should have told her that the baby died hours after birth and that

recklessly cruel, and now his own words

he couldn’t afford to go back on his story, not when Corvine no longer

already agreed to drop the lawsuit over the destroyed research, so please, just waive the

time, her eyes sharp with contempt. "Your level of stupidity never fails to amaze me," she said calmly. "Daisy doesn’t want to face the law because she knows absolutely nothing about medicine, and she knows

violently, refusing to accept it.

entertaining him. "I’m done talking to idiots. Pay the money and let me