Alpha's Regret: The Seventh Time was Forever

Chapter 197 – Leave me out of your problems

On the other end of the line, a long, unbothered yawn came through before Humphrey’s voice followed, thick with irritation and sleep.

"Ravyn... can’t you just let me rest for once?" he muttered, clearly unimpressed. "Leave me out of your problems."

Ravyn’s grip on the phone tightened slightly, his jaw clenching as he forced himself to stay composed, even though the urgency clawing at his chest was getting harder to contain with every passing second.

"Dad, there’s been a chemical explosion in the pack," he said quickly, his voice steady but edged with pressure. "I just need you to talk to Sera. She has the cure, and I need her to help us. Pack members are getting paralyzed, and if we don’t figure this out soon, we don’t know when the next explosion will happen, or how many more people will—"

He stopped abruptly, interrupted by another yawn. Ravyn’s expression hardened, frustration flashing through his eyes before his father’s voice cut in again, sharper this time.

"Ravyn," Humphrey said, the irritation now fully awake in his tone, "Seraphine was bedridden because of that same chemical, and you didn’t care."

The words hit heavier than Ravyn expected, but Humphrey didn’t pause.

"And now," he continued, his voice turning colder, "you want her to leave the city and come running to fix your pack?"

Ravyn exhaled slowly, steadying himself before answering, forcing logic into a situation that was quickly becoming personal.

"She doesn’t have to come here," he said, more measured now. "I can arrange everything from this side. She can prepare the cure, and I’ll pick it up myself. I’ll pay for it—whatever it costs."

There was a pause on the other end, followed by a quiet sigh that carried more weight than words.

"Willing to pay..." Humphrey repeated, almost to himself, the disappointment clear beneath the surface. "I thought you regretted your actions."

the air feeling heavier than

to her," he admitted, though the words didn’t come

it wasn’t for Daisy, we wouldn’t even have an heir. She’s the one

flatly, his voice cutting clean through Ravyn’s justification. "Sera gave me a

there.

quieter now but no less piercing, "if you really believe you’re innocent in all of this... then why don’t

quickly, the

he searched for the right way to say it, though there

admitted, his voice dropping just a little. "Then she

humorless exhale before he added,

undeniable. "But if you don’t want the pack destroyed," Ravyn continued, his tone tightening again with urgency, "then please, Dad... do

line, long enough to feel intentional. Then finally, Humphrey spoke

voice laced with calculation. "In that case, get the

slightly, tension

her," Humphrey went on, "but you need to understand something. Her value isn’t the same

said quickly, almost impatiently. "But doctors—pack doctors, city doctors—it doesn’t matter. They all follow the same

much about medicine," Humphrey admitted, "but I know this. Sera isn’t

a note of unmistakable pride now. "She’s a gifted child. A medicinal chemist. What she does

a pause. "You should just admit it,

jaw tightening as irritation flared,

powerful things, powerful things, far beyond what he

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kind of empire people envied, the kind he himself had wanted to be part of, but she hadn’t

Ravyn said finally, his voice firm again, grounding himself in what mattered most