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."

attention, even if he didn’t show

number fifteen," Gray continued. "Your beta’s company? Number five. And your former beta’s

hit harder than they

like gravel scraping down his throat, the

what those rankings meant. "If I hadn’t killed our child..." he started, his voice dropping, the

if convincing himself, "Besides... I have Bryan. And Daisy... she’s the one I

push further. "Alright," he said after a pause. "Forget I

call ended not long after, but the conversation lingered, refusing to

photo, and a single line beneath it. I’ve never seen him look at a woman like

and his gaze darkened almost

Voren.

Standing close to Seraphine.

the way Voren looked at her, the

warmer, and far

have, a flicker of jealousy rising before he forced it down, pushing it aside

told himself. If anything, it works in our

out a response. We should be glad he invested. If

logical, safe, and detached. At least, that’s what

❖✺❖

arrive finally came, and Ravyn made sure everything was arranged exactly as Damon had suggested, securing a house for her

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

Damon didn’t return either.

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

told himself there had to be

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

just about to head out with Bryan, already reaching

Voren.