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 said,

little tighter. “I already explained it to you,

I pressed. “She can’t call a

he guided the car up the winding road leading to our mansion. “Like I said earlier, it would be unbecoming for someone of her status to order a cab to an event like this,” Noah replied in a clipped tone of voice.

my blood boil at his words. “Scared? She’s scared? You’ve

to

I growled. “I’m the one who was kidnapped, Noah. I’m the one who almost died. And I’ve! been

a cold sweat because I thought that I had seen Jake’s rotting corpse, dripping with water, standing in the corner of my bedroom. It was just a nightmare, of course. But I hadn’t breathed a word

competition, Hannah. Zoe’s feelings are valid too. Everyone is freaked out by what happened to

Amber or Viona or Emma whining about it,” I muttered, turning away again. “And Amber is

didn’t respond, not that I expected him to. When chanced a glance over at him, his face was stony and his gaze was fixed on the road. And honestly, somehow that infuriated me even

stop myself. “I bet he set this whole thing up just to upset

“Okay, now y