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.

showing, no–that wouldn’t begin

belly with food in it.

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

of me

open my eyes. Viona stood beside me, meeting my gaze in the mirror, and it was only then that I

“Hey. You’re doing great.”

they could ruin my makeup. “Thank you, Viona. For everything. For never losing

shot me a small smile in the mirror and sat down on the settee at the

on my frame but not in a bad way–more of a sexy, casual way.

and she reached into her purse.

out a folded pamphlet, she held it out to me. I took it from her and opened it to see details for a local support group–weekly meetings for women recovering from eating disorders and related issues It

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