Alpha's Regret: The Seventh Time was Forever

Chapter 208 – She doesn’t love me anymore

A few days earlier, Ravyn had received a call from Gray, the kind of call that seemed casual at first but carried far more weight than either of them acknowledged right away.

Gray didn’t just talk. He sent videos, clips from the launch of MindNest.

The lights, the crowd, the energy, the kind of success that didn’t just happen by chance but by careful planning and relentless effort. Every frame carried Seraphine’s presence, her confidence, the way everything seemed to revolve around her without her even trying to force it.

Ravyn watched, and with every second that passed, something bitter settled deeper in his chest.

"Even if we wanted to invest," he said finally, his voice low, almost rough around the edges, "she wouldn’t have allowed it. We made our choices, and this is the result."

There was no anger in his tone, just acceptance.

But Gray wasn’t ready to let it go that easily. "She was your wife," he insisted, his voice laced with disbelief. "Your ex-wife, yeah, but we all know how much she loved you. That kind of thing doesn’t just disappear overnight."

He paused briefly before adding, more pointed this time, "If you let Daisy go, there’s a chance she might take you back."

Ravyn didn’t respond immediately. Instead, he leaned back, his gaze drifting somewhere distant as Seraphine’s face, both past and present, flashed through his mind, and the contrast between them felt sharper than anything else.

The woman he had once known, and the one she had become now, weren’t the same.

"I can’t do that," he said at last, his voice quieter now, but firm in a way that left no room for doubt. "She doesn’t love me anymore."

Gray let out a small sigh, clearly unconvinced. "You’d be surprised," he muttered. "I’ve seen this happen before. Human couples go through worse, and somehow, they still find their way back to each other."

He adjusted the conversation slightly, his tone taking on a different edge. "And look at what’s happening around you. Every company tied to her is climbing fast. The Forbes rankings are practically changing overnight."

Ravyn’s attention, even if he

everything we’ve managed to stabilize, we’re sitting at number fifteen," Gray continued. "Your beta’s company? Number five. And your

numbers hit harder than they should

felt like gravel scraping down his throat, the weight of everything settling uncomfortably

dropping, the words heavy with something he didn’t often allow himself to feel. "Maybe I would’ve had

if convincing himself, "Besides... I have Bryan.

further. "Alright," he said after a

not long after, but the conversation lingered, refusing

Gray sent another message. A photo, and a single line beneath it. I’ve never seen him look at

opened it, and his gaze darkened

Voren.

Standing close to Seraphine.

clear as day in the way Voren looked at her, the absence of that usual

something warmer, and far more

flicker of jealousy rising before he

told himself. If anything, it works

response. We should be glad

was logical, safe, and detached. At

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exactly as Damon had

and yet, that night, she didn’t show up. Not at the pack, and not anywhere he

Damon didn’t return either.

their phones were off, the automated response repeating the same thing over and over until it began

overthink it, told himself there had to be a

when morning came and there was still no sign of them, that quiet unease began to grow

just about to head out with Bryan, already

Voren.