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—"

"Your stocks are doing extremely well. Yesterday you were number ten. Today you’re

was only one person in

slow realization settled over him, equal parts awe

higher without ever drawing attention to herself. While he was out here pretending, maneuvering

was nothing more than an attempt to buy time, to steady the

"Check it

racing faster than

to

stepping into the washroom and locking the door behind

the cool echo of tiled walls, the enclosed space amplifying the tension pressing against his ribs. He lowered his voice before

She answered quickly. "Hello."

I have news," Damon said urgently, the response was

it," Seraphine replied, her tone low and firm,

to a man called Zane. I didn’t catch

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

too many Zanes," she said evenly. "I need a surname if I’m going to identify

and frustration prickled at the back of his neck. He replayed the overheard conversation in his head, every word Daisy had whispered,

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

slowly as if trying to

certain every transfer went to