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

clearly wanted it, and I practically stole it from her. It wasn’t as though I had given the toy to that

it, I had really

off.

given it to me without expecting anything in return.

“Hannah? Hannah!”

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

an Italian

when all of their eyes turned toward me–Noah

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their ice, the food stand attendant looking bored, 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 soft unicorn that I

I called out, my voice cracking beneath

as Noah and I made our way to the car, the only sounds that of the distant fairgrounds shutting down and our shoes clicking on the pavement. Noah’s car was one of a few left, the lot cast

agreed to leave with Noah. Right now, though, part of me wished I had just called

glance and another one of his infuriating smirks as we walked up to

meeting his gaze.

out a small huff of satisfaction. “On a scale

“Ter.”

paused next to the car, turning to look at me down the bridge of his nose. “It’s not becoming to try and disguise

away with a clenched jaw. We stood in silence for several long moments,

I realized that there was nothing I could say to make either of us feel better,