Alpha's Regret After Her Rebirth by Aurora Starling

Chapter 0122
Noah
Noah’s gaze followed Hannah as she brushed past him, her hips swaying in that infuriatingly alluring way that always made his mouth go dry. The scent of her shampoo-light and floral-wafted towards him, stirring his wolf’s interest despite his best efforts to quell it.
A muscle ticked in his jaw as he watched her disappear through the heavy oak doors and back into the crowded ballroom. Even now, after all this time, he couldn’t deny the visceral attraction he had to her.
His body begged for her, craved the taste of her skin and the warmth of her lips on his neck. It had been so long since they had been intimate, and the way things were looking right now, it might never happen again.
Noah closed his eyes, drawing in a slow, steadying breath as the memory of that day he had heard about Hannah’s issues resurfaces.
The family doctor had a frown on his face as he reviewed Hannah’s medical reports, using one finger to push his wire-rimmed glasses a little further up on his nose.
“You understand her… condition, yes?” the doctor asked, glancing at Noah. “How frail her body is?”
Noah had nodded stiffly. “I’m aware.”

The doctor hummed, tapping his pen against the manila folder. “In that case, I trust you will exercise discretion when it comes to… intimate matters. Given her body’s frailty, I would strongly advise against sex outside of her ovulation window.”
The words had left Noah dumbfounded. “You mean….”
“Yes. It is highly unlikely for her to even get lubricated on her own outside that window,” the doctor explained. “Her vagina will also be far too tight. It will be incredibly painful for her. Be sure to only initiate sex during these times if you want to avoid that…”
Noah’s hands clenched at his sides as the memory faded, jaw clenching hard enough for his teeth to grind together. All these years, he had followed that warning to the letter-even going so far as to avoid sleeping in Hannah’s bed outside of her fertile periods. Sleeping in his office study to keep himself from getting aroused by her.
So many nights had been spent on that wretched sofa, his back and hips aching. All to protect her, to spare her from any potential harm that intimacy could cause in her delicate-state.
But now, in light of her words, it seemed like those precautions might not have been necessary after all. She seemed far more aroused now than he had expected, and their monthly intimacy night had passed already.
Noah’s brows drew together. Had the doctor been mistaken, after all?
His gaze drifted back toward the ballroom doors, fixating on the point where Hannah had disappeared in the crowd. Even with the distance between them, his wolf felt the magnetic pull toward her.
And now, maybe he could actually have a chance. He wouldn’t need to be afraid to get too close to her, because maybe, just maybe, she wouldn’t experience the pain and discomfort that he had expected all
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these years.
Noah raked his fingers through his hair, gritting his teeth against the insistent throb between his legs as he made his way back to the ballroom. The sensation had been easily ignored before when he thought that it would be impossible anyway, but now.
Goddess, he could practically smell the pheromones clinging to her skin before she had stormed off. He could picture the way her cheeks had flushed, the way her nostrils flared when she breathed deeply.