Alpha's Regret After Her Rebirth by Aurora Starling

Chapter 0203
Chapter 0203
The venom in her words gave me pause. “I didn’t take you as the religious type,” I said, furrowing my brow.
Zoe simply shrugged. “I’m not, really. But rain wasn’t in the forecast today, and now for it to start downpouring like this out of nowhere…”
Her voice trailed off meaningfully. I opened and closed my mouth a few times, unsure of how to answer… Whatever it was that she was implying.
But before I could respond, Noah suddenly appeared at my side.
“Hannah, there you are,” he said. His eyes widened as he took in my appearance. “Goddess, you’re completely covered in mud. What the hell happened to you?”
I pursed my lips and wiped a bit of water out of my eyes. “I fell.”
Noah eyed me up and down, his expression softening ever so slightly as he looked at me. Finally, he muttered, “Come on, let’s get you cleaned up.”

Without waiting for a response, he took my arm and led me away from Zoe, whose eyes I could feel boring holes into my back. No doubt she was p***d that she, too, was soaked to the bone and Noah had hardly paid her any mind. Honestly, I wasn’t even sure if he recognized her in her current state with everything else going on.
Noah guided me down the hall, up the stairs, and to my bedroom. Once we were inside, he turned and closed the door behind us. The room was blissfully silent, the door effectively shutting out the chaos in the dance hall below.
“We need to get you out of these wet clothes before you catch a cold,” he said brusquely and without preamble.
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I nodded, suddenly feeling oddly small under his intense gaze. Before I could protest, Noah stepped forward and began tugging at my muddy robes, his movements quick and forceful. I winced as he pulled a bit too hard on a tangled section of my sash, which had gotten utterly caked with mud when 1 fell.
“Noah, I can do it myself,” I protested weakly.
He ignored me and continued to undress me with an efficiency that felt more clinical than intimate. “Do you have something else to wear?” he asked.
“Plenty,” I said stiffly.
Noah nodded and continued to work. His fingers brushed my collar bone as he tugged my robe aside, parting the fabric to reveal my lace bra underneath. My face reddened, my fingers moving to quickly shut the robe, but this only seemed to frustrate him.
“We don’t have time for this, Hannah.”
“Then let me do it myself.”
“I’m trying to help-”
Suddenly, as he yanked at my outer robe with frustration, I felt something shift in my pocket.
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