Alpha's Regret After Her Rebirth by Aurora Starling

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Last Updated:2024-03-09 14:08:20

I spun around and attempted to push past Noah. He would not move.

“Get out of my way,” I commanded.

At the sound of my tone, Noah stepped aside.

I stormed out of our en suite bathroom and into our bedroom. Noah followed closely behind me.

“What is wrong with you tonight?” he demanded.

I stopped in front of our bed and looked around the room. Noah’s gaze traced my own.

The king-sized bed had been covered in a red silk comforter and sprinkled with pink rose petals. The lights had been dimmed, with the flames of vanilla-scented teacup candles scattered throughout the room. To top it all off were a bottle of champagne—on ice—and a plate of oysters on the bedside table.

I had always gone all-out for these monthly intimacy nights. Too bad Noah never did the same for me.

I froze as Noah’s eyes landed on me. They roved over me in a way I was not accustomed to—was that a spark of desire that I saw?

No, it couldn’t be.

Whatever it was, I felt compelled to back onto the bed as he approached me. I fell backwards and scooted myself to the middle of the mattress.

Noah climbed onto the bed after me. He prowled up to me, as though channeling the vicious predator deep inside him, and straddled me with my legs trapped between his and a hand placed on either side of my head.

“You must be eagerly awaiting something,” he whispered, his hot breath rolling onto my face. “Why else would you go to all this trouble?”

He lowered his muscular body on top of me, creating a complete cage that I could not escape.

My cheeks flushed. A fire ignited in my belly, spreading to my groin and the rest of my body until my skin was hot to the touch. My pulse pounded in my ears, my chest, and my limbs.

me to deny

Noah,” I said. “I’m

lips in

“Tired of what?”

tired of our scheduled monthly intimacy just

brow at

he asked with a teasing smirk. There was that

drop of sweat ran down my head, my neck, and onto my cleavage. I could imagine him licking that drop off of me, then taking that tongue further,

trying to dislodge the fantasy from my mind.

said, lowering himself onto

attempted to wiggle out from underneath Noah’s

a woman says, ‘No,’ she means ‘no,’” I spat

tightened, curling the comforter beneath his vice-like grasp. He snarled at

‘no’ to our marriage, then things would have been

was a relief to have the pressure of his body removed from mine, and yet his words slapped me harder than he ever could. I turned onto my side and propped myself up on my elbow

my arrival forced Zoe to reject you?” I

his pants. His eyes flicked up towards me before

replied coldly. “You had

that answer pierced me right through the heart. Maybe I had secretly hoped that Noah had given me at least that much consideration. Maybe I didn’t believe that he was telling

that things were anything but okay. “However, you still need to be prepared for the Acceptance Ceremony tomorrow. You didn’t forget, did you?”

I didn’t forget,”

I forget the day that Zoe came back to Nightcrest Pack? It was

would find a way to cancel the Acceptance Ceremony and bar Zoe from returning to the pack altogether, but I couldn’t. Only the Alpha

my thoughts by Noah approaching the door.

I said, reaching towards him.

him one last chance to be honest with me. Our

almost inaudibly and turned back