Alpha's Regret After Her Rebirth by Aurora Starling

Chapter 0257

Chapter 0257

Hannah

The car ride home was tense, the silence broken only by the soft hum of the engine as Noah drove down the sunlit streets. I couldn’t shake the irritation that had been building since Leonard’s parting words.

“Don’t forget to pick up Zoe tonight!”

Bastard. So he had gotten my skin after all; and to make matters worse, he wasn’t bluffing when he said

that.

“Hannah,” Noah said, sounding exasperated, “come on. You’ve been staring out the window with your eyes practically bugging out for ten minutes straight.”

“I just still don’t understand why you have to pick up Zoe tonight,” I

whitening as he gripped the steering wheel a little tighter. “I already explained it to you, Hannah. Her car broke down,

I pressed. “She can’t call a

of her status to order a cab to an event like this,” Noah replied in a clipped tone of voice. “Plus, she’s scared after what happened with your kidnapping. She won’t call cabs or Ubers.”

blood boil at his words. “Scared? She’s

allowed to be

one who was kidnapped, Noah. I’m the one who almost died. And I’ve! been dealing with it without causing a scene or inconveniencing

sweat because I thought that I had seen Jake’s rotting corpse, dripping with water, standing in the corner of

clenched, a muscle ticking visibly beneath his skin. “It’s not a competition, Hannah. Zoe’s feelings are

you don’t see Amber or Viona or Emma whining about it,” I muttered, turning

his face was stony and his gaze

reeks of Leonard,” I blurted out before I could stop myself. “I bet he set this whole thing up just to upset me.

“Okay, now y