Alpha's Regret After Her Rebirth by Aurora Starling

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Last Updated:2024-03-09 14:09:25

Noah stared in shock as Zoe glided across the stage towards him, a young boy in tow. The other new pack members instinctively parted for her, like a pair of hands parting reeds in a river. Paparazzi clambered to the front of the audience as they tried to be the first to catch a picture of the reunited lovers.

Noah stiffened at the thought of how Hannah was going to react to Zoe’s return. He glanced briefly at Hannah, but she was not looking at Zoe. She was looking at him.

Why would she be looking at him? Did Hannah think that he had something to do with Zoe’s return? Did she think that he had chosen not to tell her about it?

He had been too busy with other pack duties to even deal with the applications for new pack members himself. There was no way that he could have known about Zoe’s return, let alone warn Hannah about it.

Noah could not remember seeing Zoe’s name among those on the list of new pack members that Scott had given him in advance of the Acceptance Ceremony. He searched his mind for any hint that this was going to happen, for any memory of being told that Zoe was going to arrive, let alone with a child. Nothing.

A mixture of anger and confusion built up inside of Noah. He wanted to charge over to Scott and confront him right that moment, but he knew that he could not, not during the middle of a ceremony, not in public, and certainly not on live TV. Instead, he mentally pulled himself together so that no one would be able to detect his internal turmoil.

Noah offered Zoe a smile as she came to a halt in front of him.

“My son, Adam, and I wish to seek refuge under Alpha Noah’s rule in the Nightcrest Pack,” Zoe declared.

Noah just barely stopped himself from stumbling over the next part of the ceremony. To everyone present, though, it appeared as though he completed it flawlessly.

for refuge has been accepted,” he said. “Please, have you and your son state your allegiance to the Pack.”

pledge allegiance to

pledge of allegiance, Noah

me about Zoe’s

member applicant, Scott defended his choice. She would have just been

Lunar Festival. He had been preoccupied with the competition among the packs

why wouldn’t he?

event was the most important in the entire course of Noah’s time as Alpha of the Nightcrest Pack. Of course, he would put all of

his office, even sleeping there most nights. It didn’t hurt that working so much kept him away from Hannah’s emotional neediness, but

his attention to Zoe and Adam. The little boy was now trying to recite the pledge of allegiance and stumbling over some of the bigger words, so his mother was helping him as

back to the Nightcrest Pack alone with her son, she must have hit upon hard times and undergone a divorce. There was no other way that she would be there without her husband, seeking refuge.

would have never let Zoe get to this point

the impulse to blame Hannah. He had agreed to the marriage as well, and he knew that it wouldn’t be fair to place all the blame on Hannah

of. A union between the Nightcrest Pack and the Silvermoon Pack, former Alpha Marcus had insisted, was all that could save the Nightcrest Pack from war at the time. Noah only did what was

Hannah and Zoe

he and Zoe severed their bond as it came rushing back to him. It had been the worst night of his life. He could

and Noah married Hannah. They never saw each other again, until this Acceptance Ceremony. She was just as beautiful as the day that