Alpha's Regret After Her Rebirth by Aurora Starling

Chapter 0080

Dammit, he thought. Dammit all.

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With a resigned sigh, Noah pushed away from the wall and made his way over to the group. Hannah stood, gesturing to the stool with a smirk, and Noah shot her a withering look before sitting in her place.

A young boy immediately thrust a book into his hands, and Noah found himself the recipient of a dozen expectant stares

Steeling himself, Noah cleared his throat and opened the book, scanning the first few pages with a furrowed brow. When he began to read out loud, his voice was flat and monotone, utterly devoid of any of the animation or voices that Hannah had used.

“Once upon a time, there was a greedy dragon…”

The children listened politely for all of two paragraphs before the first complaint rang out.

“You’re not doing the voices!”

Noah’s gaze snapped up from the book, the tips of his ears turning red as the rest of the kids immediately echoed the first kid’s complaint with a chorus of disgruntled murmurs. He shot Hannah another look, but she simply shrugged one shoulder and offered an impish grin in response.

helps,” she said quietly, pointing at the bin of cloth and paper mache puppets at

if he would debase himself. by putting on a silly puppet show,

“Please, Alpha Noah!”

target of a barrage of tiny voices once again. He could practically feel the weight of Hannah’s stare

want to disappoint the children, would you? Her gaze seemed to say.

the nearest puppet–a garish purple dragon with a floppy tail and a lopsided grin. He slipped his hand inside, his fingers finding the holes to bring the puppet to life as he cleared

an exaggerated growl as he moved the dragon puppet through the air, “there was a greedy dragon named…

giggles causing the faintest ghost of a smile to tug at the corners of Noah’s

to fly down to the village and steal all

more confident. Soon, he found himself moving the dragon around,

crawling around the group on his hands and knees as he acted out the various characters. At that point, he wasn’t even reading the story anymore–he was just making it up as he

Chapter 0020

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of the story and leaned back onto his heels, panting lightly. The children immediately burst into applause and cheers. “That was the