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.

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

as he shook his head almost imperceptibly. As if he would debase himself. by putting on a silly puppet show, all so

“Please, Alpha Noah!”

target of a barrage of tiny voices

wouldn’t want to disappoint the children, would you? Her gaze seemed to say. Or

lopsided grin. He slipped his hand inside, his fingers finding the holes to bring the puppet to

into an exaggerated growl as he moved the dragon puppet through the air,

faintest ghost of a smile to

down to the

growing a little more confident. Soon, he found himself moving the dragon around, doing

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

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sweeping motion of the dragon through the air, Noah reached the end of the story and leaned back onto his heels, panting lightly. The children immediately burst into applause and cheers. “That was the BEST!” one little boy cried