Alpha's Regret: The Seventh Time was Forever novel Chapter 55

Chapter 55: Chapter 55 – leave and never come back

Seraphine stared at him with an expression so composed it almost felt amusing, as though she were daring him to crack first. "Who else do you think I should give it to," she asked evenly, her gaze steady and unblinking. "You?"

Ravyn felt bile rise sharply in his throat, the sour taste settling at the back of his tongue as he struggled to keep his composure.

He hated that she still had this effect on him, hated that a few carefully chosen words from her could make him feel cornered. Still, he forced himself to speak, his voice strained but firm as he laid out his condition.

"After you receive the money, I want every single trace of that video destroyed. I don’t want copies, backups, or anything that can ever resurface."

Seraphine’s lips curved upward slowly, her smile filled with disbelief and sharp amusement. "Oh," she said lightly, tilting her head, "that will cost you another five billion."

The words landed heavier than she had expected, not on him but on herself. She had originally planned to delete the video and erase everything connected to Daisy once the money exchanged hands, but that had been before her conversation with Humphrey.

Now, armed with new leverage and a clearer sense of how deep Ravyn’s fear truly ran, she found herself unwilling to show mercy. Ruthlessness, she had learned, was the only language men like him truly understood.

Ravyn looked as though he had completely lost his mind, his face pale and his eyes glassy, yet he couldn’t even bring himself to protest out loud.

For the first time since she had known him, Seraphine saw unfiltered fear in his eyes, raw and undeniable, and the fact that Voren was not standing beside him to shield him or clean up his mess made the moment all the more satisfying.

"You still can’t get over the fact that I could never love you, can you?" Ravyn blurted out, his voice tight and brittle.

Amusement flickered in Seraphine’s eyes, and then she laughed, the sound sharp and hysterical, echoing slightly in the room. "Ravyn," she said between breaths, "whatever love I had for you died a few months into our marriage."

She paused, studying him with a detached intensity, genuinely wondering how she had ever convinced herself that a spineless Alpha like him was worth her devotion in the first place.

Thankfully, that obsession had long since burned itself out. Ravyn stared at her as if she were speaking in a language he did not understand, confusion clouding his expression. "Then why," he asked slowly, "did you stay for seven whole years?"

"I’ll tell you why," Seraphine replied, her tone shifting, the humor draining from her face as seriousness took its place.

"A few months into the marriage, I realized we were completely incompatible, but I was already pregnant, so I stayed for Bryan. I wanted him to grow up believing he had a perfect family, so I kept reminding myself of my mother’s words, that seven meant perfection, that seven years was the mark of something complete."

She smiled, but the expression was laced with bitterness and old pain. "I told myself that if you served the divorce papers for the seventh time, then I would take Bryan and leave quietly, without a fight," she said, then added coldly, "but you just had to show me how ruthless you truly are. You killed my child and then forced me to raise your mistress’s child as my own."

Her voice dropped, turning icy and controlled. "You crossed a line, Ravyn, and until you wake my child from the ashes, I will never stop making your life a living hell."

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