Alpha's Regret: The Seventh Time was Forever

Chapter 241

Chapter 241 — I am no longer your Luna

The salary deduction had done what nothing else that morning had managed to do. All that easy certainty, and comfortable assumptions about where this was heading and how it would end, had quietly packed up and left the moment the numbers became real.

Smug expressions had gone rigid. Confident eyes had gone calculating. And almost as one, they turned toward Daisy because surely she would say something now.

Surely, she would step in. She was going to be their Luna. She had been the one standing in that corner feeding the whole thing through mind link, and they had assumed, without ever putting it into words, that that meant she was in this with them all the way.

They had absolutely no idea what was coming next.

"You all know how much my parents care for her," Ravyn continued, his voice staying even and unhurried, giving the room nothing to grab onto and use. "Had it not been for them, Luna Seraphine—"

"I am no longer your Luna."

Seraphine’s voice came in clean and well-placed, not loud, nor heated, carrying no particular emotion behind it. Just a correction, stated with the same calm you’d use to point out a wrong turn.

Ravyn swallowed once. "You haven’t been replaced. The title still stands."

The color left Daisy’s face in one complete, uninterrupted pull.

Then Seraphine spoke again, and when it came it was warm, almost gentle, which somehow made it land considerably worse than anything sharp could have. "In that case, I formally renounce my title as Luna of the Centenary Pack."

exactly one breath. "Going forward, I am simply

in a way

this particular gift for locating the exact point where you believed you’d found the upper hand and quietly moving it somewhere you couldn’t reach, all

he’d spent so many years not paying close enough attention that he’d let himself believe it had faded. It

just the cure, though the cure mattered enormously. The investment. The connections. The doors she moved through in

given her credit for, and she didn’t need a single thing from

needed him. That was the plain, unadorned

what you

she said. "For

turned his attention back to the room, to all those

she made an exception to come out here at all is something every one of you should be grateful for.

carefully, feeling its way across uncertain ground. "Alpha, are

said, without a flicker of impatience, "ask Alpha

into fists, tight enough that her knuckles had gone the color of

sorry," Diane started, and another voice was already rising right behind hers when Seraphine lifted one

Everything stopped.

you’re offering me respect because of what I’ve built, then it isn’t respect but it’s strategy. You stood in this gym this

for a moment, unhurried. "I have no use for an apology that only arrived attached to a financial

Ravyn with the composed ease of someone

"Kevin. Diane. Audrey. Fred."

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