Alpha's Regret After Her Rebirth by Aurora Starling

Chapter 0152

Hannah

As Zoe thrust the hot pink unicom into my hands, my mouth fell open. I didn’t know what to say or do–all I could manage was to just stand there, blinking owlishly at her, and wonder whether I was imagining it or

not.

“Hannah,” Noah suddenly said, nudging me with his elbow, “that was nice of Zoe, wasn’t it?”

With my tongue working uselessly in my mouth, I slowly looked up at Noah to see a satisfied smirk tugging at the corners of his lips. My face instantly turned red and I looked back at Zoe, feeling utterly dumbfounded and embarrassed.

“Y–Yes,” I managed. “Thank you, Zoe. But why…?”

Zoe merely shrugged and stuffed her hands into her jacket pockets. “I have to admit, I admire how your gave that toy to that kid earlier even though you were the one who won it,” she said. “And I thought your

I

deserved a new one for your trouble.”

For several long moments, I stood in silence as my eyes flickered back and forth between Zoe and the stuffed unicorn. Drake stood behind Zoe, watching with a bemused expression on his face. Meanwhile, Noah continued to smirk at me, his arms folded across his chest.

“Well, um… Thank you,” I said, even though a part of me couldn’t help but wonder if this was some kind of trick to make me look bad and call me out for blatantly trying to hurt Zoe by giving her coveted plushie away. “I appreciate it, Zoe. But you didn’t have to.”

She simply shrugged again, already turning on her heel. “I wanted to.”

With that, Zoe began marching over to a nearby food stand. As she fished a few bills out of her wallet to buy herself an Italian ice, I dug my fingers a little deeper into the soft fur of the toy unicorn. Its beady eyes seemed to stare up at me, mocking me as Noah and Drake moved to follow Zoe.

face turned a deeper

Zoe clearly wanted it, and I practically stole it from her. It

I tried to deny it, I had really only given the stuffed animal to the

off.

to me without expecting anything in return. Sure, maybe she was just trying to

“Hannah? Hannah!”

of Drake’s voice pulled me out of my train of self–loathing, and I lifted my head to see him looking at me expectantly beside the

want an Italian

have looked as red as a tomato when all of their eyes turned toward

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and Drake holding up a wad of money. All while I was still standing there, too stunned to even move, my fingers digging so deep into the

called out, my voice

down and our shoes

on driving her home, and I had agreed

slightly as I held it. Noah shot me a sidelong glance and another one of his infuriating smirks as we walked up to his car. He had been looking at me like that all night since

without meeting

satisfaction. “On a scale of one to

“Ter.”

with a shake of his head. “You should be.” He paused next to the car, turning to look at me down the bridge of his nose. “It’s not becoming to try

a clenched jaw. We stood in silence for several long moments, my mind whirling to come up with some biting retort while Noah’s gaze bored holes into the side of

nothing I could say to make either of us