Alpha's Regret: The Seventh Time was Forever

Chapter 56 – I love that boy

Ravyn transferred the full amount without negotiating again, eleven billion in one clean motion, and he sat there watching the numbers on his screen shift like they were alive, his company’s valuation bleeding out in real time while his stock continued to plunge lower with every passing second.

This time, the investors did not stay silent or patient, because his phone started lighting up almost immediately, call after call stacking on top of each other, but Ravyn did not answer a single one of them as he leaned back slightly and watched Seraphine settle into work again like nothing extraordinary had just happened.

The phone kept vibrating against the table until one sound finally cut through the noise, a ringtone so specific and personal that his fingers stilled instantly.

"You know our love was meant to be, the kind of love that would last forever."

He did not need to check the screen to know it was Daisy, and when he picked up the call, Seraphine lifted a brow, not in jealousy or irritation, but in quiet amusement at how unexpectedly romantic Ravyn could be.

It struck her as ironic how carefully and gently he handled Daisy, but when it came to her, she was giving him the same treatment he used to give her when they were married. Coldness, and indifference.

"Daisy, are you okay?" Ravyn asked softly, his voice losing its sharp edges, turning light and careful, almost like a winter breeze brushing against thin ice.

On the other end, Daisy’s voice trembled as she spoke. "The video is gone. When I clicked it, the screen just turned black."

Ravyn released a long breath he had not realized he was holding. "Yeah, I’m with Seraphine right now. I had to pay her to take it down."

immediate, filled with panic. "Pay her?

though he forced a smile immediately, as if she could see it through the phone. "Don’t worry about it. It’s nothing. I’d do anything for

"Eleven billion... Seraphine is—"

quickly, his eyes flicking toward Seraphine as unease crept into his gut. "We’ll talk when

Daisy could finish her thought, because fear gnawed at him, fear that Seraphine might decide she had not taken enough, or that she

said evenly, her voice steady and cold, "but take this seriously, Ravyn, and

anyone first, because she believed strikes meant nothing if they came without notice, and she always

can take all the money, the power, the skills, and whatever else you think makes you untouchable, but believe me when I say this, you will never have a man as powerful as me loving you the way I

challenge Ravyn, to tell him that he loved Seraphine

not repair Seraphine’s honor in Ravyn’s eyes, because Corvine did not sit among the top ten men on the Forbes list. His father was

he did not want to be away from Seraphine to do that, and those were the men Ravyn was talking about, the ones he believed defined power

Ravyn’s glare with an expression so neutral it was almost unsettling, because even though his words cut deeper than she wanted to admit, she absorbed the pain quietly and responded with a soft, controlled

said calmly, "that the men you admire so much are still not powerful enough to handle a woman like me. You love Daisy because she flatters your ego with her emptiness, while I bring out the weaker parts of you, the man you will never have the courage to become, not even in a

falling as rage and humiliation tangled together, because he wanted to say something cruel enough to break her completely, something sharper than the loss of her child, but Seraphine had already taught him a lesson he would never forget. He knew that

out of the café like someone was chasing him, and the moment the door slammed shut behind him, Seraphine picked

things?" she

she went