Alpha's Regret: The Seventh Time was Forever novel Chapter 241

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."

She let that sit for exactly one breath. "Going forward, I am simply Seraphine Walker. Those I choose to allow may call me Sera."

The room went still in a way it hadn’t gone still before.

Ravyn drew in a slow breath and held it for a moment behind closed lips. She 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 voice or breaking her composure.

He’d 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 faded. If anything, her time away had refined it.

He pulled himself back to the full picture. Not just the cure, though the cure 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 he’d tried.

She was holding more than he’d ever given her credit for, and she didn’t need a single thing from him to keep holding it.

He needed her far more than she needed him. That was the plain, unadorned truth of it, and spending energy fighting it was a luxury he couldn’t afford.

"If that’s what you want, Sera."

"It’s Seraphine," she said. "For you."

Ravyn swallowed the correction and took it. "Seraphine." He turned his attention back to the room, to all those faces still trying to recalibrate what kind of morning this had turned into.

"What I want this pack to understand is that she is a major figure in the city’s business world. The fact that she made an exception to come out here at all is something every one of you should be grateful for. And that gratitude starts with my parents."

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