Alpha's Regret After Her Rebirth by Aurora Starling

Chapter 0034

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My heart gave a little flutter at the undisguised want and hunger in his eyes. This wasn’t like him, to want me outside of our intimacy nights. But something had changed lately.

Later that evening as I began dressing for the banquet, stood in front of the floor–length mirror in my chambers and stared at my gaunt reflection. Viona, wearing her own dark purple gown for the evening, was carefully laying out potential gown options on the bed behind me.

“I like this black one,” she said, pointing at a long black silk gown with one hand while she lifted a wine glass to her lips with the other. “It’s sexy, but refined.”

I turned around and picked up the dress, then held it up to myself in the mirror. She was right; it was suitable for tonight. “But I haven’t worn this dress in… I don’t even know how long.” I said absentmindedly as I turned this way and that.

“There’s no time better than the present,” Viona said.

Glancing down, I traced my hands over the hollows of my ribcage, the knobby protrusion of my hips. but there, just below my concave belly, was the tiniest swell. A gentle curve that caught the light, casting the faintest of shadows.

pregnancy showing, no–that wouldn’t begin to show for a good

a belly with food in it. Not

closed my eyes for a moment, picturing my body from before my eating disorder began–the slopes and valleys, the lush femininity I had forsaken through years of starvation. But now… now I

me hated

me, meeting my gaze in the mirror, and it was only then that I

“Hey. You’re doing great.”

wiped my tears away before they could ruin my makeup. “Thank you, Viona. For everything.

and sat down on the settee at the end of the bed. “It’s what friends

it. It went on smoothly and easily, hanging slightly loose on my frame but not in a bad way–more of a sexy,

eyes lit up and she reached into her purse. “Actually,

took it from her and opened it to see details for

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