Alpha's Regret: The Seventh Time was Forever

Chapter 69 – Seraphine is up against me

Damon stood there for a moment after Ravyn’s voice settled into silence, staring at the wall as though the paint itself might rearrange into answers.

He could not remember the last time Ravyn had dropped the formal tone and asked for something that sounded even remotely like a favor.

The weight alone was enough to unsettle him, because men like Ravyn did not bend unless something was cracking beneath their feet.

"What kind of favor?" Damon finally asked, keeping his voice neutral even though his instincts were already sharpening.

On the other end of the line, Ravyn exhaled heavily, and that single breath carried more strain than any words could have.

"Seraphine is up against me," he said bluntly, no pride cushioning the admission. "She’s backing the Stone Group and their stocks keep climbing while mine won’t stabilize. Ever since she pulled out her investment, it’s been rough. I was thinking... if you could invest more. I’m looking at fifty billion."

For a split second, Damon thought he had misheard him. Fifty billion?

His expression hardened instantly, his jaw tightening as heat surged through his chest. The audacity alone made his wolf bristle beneath his skin.

Help Ravyn? After everything he had done to Seraphine? After the humiliation, the betrayal, the quiet destruction he had left in his wake? The irony would have been laughable if it were not so insulting.

If only Ravyn knew the only reason Damon was even in that pack, breathing that air, tolerating Daisy’s proximity, was because of Seraphine.

Still, outright refusal would be reckless. Damon was not here to act on emotion. He was here to play the long game.

"Let me check my stock performance," Damon replied carefully, forcing steadiness into his tone. "I haven’t reviewed it since I—"

are doing extremely well. Yesterday you were number ten.

froze where he stood, as if the world was spinning around him. There was only one person in the world capable of orchestrating something like that without

settled over him, equal parts awe and ache.

higher without ever drawing attention to herself. While he was out here pretending, maneuvering through pack politics and Daisy’s deceptions, she had been holding

the question was nothing more than an attempt

no," Ravyn insisted immediately. "Check it yourself and get back

his mind racing faster than his pulse. Fifty billion. Ravyn was desperate, and desperate men made dangerous

and he needed to

washroom

walls, the enclosed space

She answered quickly. "Hello."

I have news," Damon said urgently, the response

and firm, the kind of calm that carried authority

siphoning money to a man

her chair, the faint creak of leather barely audible through the connection. Her mind was already moving, analyzing, sorting

"I need a surname if I’m

He replayed the overheard conversation in his

phone?" he asked, lowering his voice even further. "Check who she was talking to. It hasn’t been ten minutes.

paused, inhaling slowly as if trying

mentioned sending more. I’m almost certain every transfer