Alpha's Regret After Her Rebirth by Aurora Starling

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Last Updated:2024-03-09 14:09:48

“Thank you, Luna Hannah,” Zoe said with more sincerity than I had expected.

“Thank you for choosing us as your pack,” I said in an almost sickeningly sweet tone. I turned my attention to her son. “Tell me, how old are you, Adam?”

Adam shyly held up four fingers.

Zoe smiled and ran her fingers through Adam’s golden locks.

“He’s four years old,” she said proudly. “He’s also a bit shy around new people.”

I smiled brightly down at Adam.

“That’s all right. It’s good to be a little cautious in front of strangers.”

I turned back to Zoe.

“With your permission,” I continued, “I have prepared gifts for all the Pack’s children in advance of the upcoming Lunar Festival, and I’d like to give Adam his now. It might be just the thing to make him feel at home.”

Zoe motioned forward with her hand.

“Be my guest.”

I reached back amongst the bags of supplies, where I had hidden Adam’s gift from even Noah’s sight. I pulled out the box encased in shiny red wrapping paper and handed it to Adam. The boy turned the gift over carefully, as though he were unsure of what to do with it.

“Go ahead, sweetheart,” Zoe encouraged him. “Open it.”

Giving his mother one last look, Adam tore apart the wrapping paper and tossed it aside with abandon. His eyes widened upon seeing the Transformer Optimus Prime action figure. He looked at his mother again, then a smile stretched across his face, and he began jumping up and down.

“Mommy, Mommy, look!” he exclaimed, jamming his finger against the box repeatedly.

“I know, I see,” Zoe said, almost laughing with joy herself. “That’s a very special gift. What do you say to Luna Hannah?”

and, to my surprise, rushed forward to hug me, burying his face in my dress.

Luna Hannah,” he said, his voice

returned his

“You’re welcome, Adam.”

broke out among the crowd. The paparazzi nearly fell over each other to get a

home, watching various news videos of the Acceptance

outperformed herself today with her warm reception of Zoe, Alpha Noah’s former fated mate, and Zoe’s son, Adam,” one news anchor declared. “She has shown herself to be the picture of grace and poise. I know that

her desk partner added. “She did not just give Zoe and her child the same supplies as all the other refugees but truly opened her arms and her heart to them and greeted them like long-lost family members. How many among us would have done that?”

Pack in the first place?” the host of another show postulated. “After all, it is highly unusual for a former Luna of one pack to join

went in-depth on the profile of Drake, Zoe’s presumably ex-husband, and made some speculations about the reason behind Zoe’s sudden

playboy from the days before his marriage to Zoe. It is more than

him in an attempt to save her own image. Whether this will work or

vibrated for what seemed like the hundredth time that hour. It was Viona, again. I couldn’t leave her hanging for too long, or

“Hello?” I answered.

Viona exclaimed. “I was starting

my

queen sometimes. What’s

It’s all over

“What is?”

“Zoe’s back!”

I said calmly.

you pissed about

lied. “Are

Noah let her come back, after everything that you’ve done for him? After everything that

know what you’re

fated mates, Hannah. You know what

forced myself to sigh, to maintain

that means.

why aren’t you more worried? Don’t you know what could happen now that she’s back? That