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."

that sit for exactly one breath. "Going forward, I am simply Seraphine Walker. Those I choose to allow

a way it

had 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 without raising her

forgotten that about her. Or maybe he’d spent so many years not paying close enough attention that he’d let himself believe it had faded. It hadn’t

mattered enormously. The investment. The connections. The doors she moved through in the human business world that he’d never once been able to get close to, no matter how

holding more than he’d ever given her credit for, and

was the plain, unadorned truth of it, and spending

that’s what you want,

Seraphine," she said. "For

to the room, to all

fact that she made an exception to come out here at all is something every one

out carefully, feeling its way across

confirmation," Ravyn said, without

her sides, Daisy’s hands had closed into fists, tight enough that her knuckles

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

Everything stopped.

it isn’t respect but it’s strategy. You stood in this gym this morning

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

to Ravyn with the composed ease of

"Kevin. Diane. Audrey. Fred."

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