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.”

that was sharp enough to cut diamonds. “I just still don’t understand why you have to pick up Zoe tonight,” I said, my voice tense. “Can’t she find her

little tighter. “I already explained it to you, Hannah. Her car broke down, and her usual driver

I pressed. “She can’t call

head as 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

boil at his words. “Scared? She’s scared? You’ve got to be kidding

allowed to be

who almost died. And I’ve! been dealing with it without causing a

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 of it

“It’s not a competition, Hannah. Zoe’s feelings are valid too. Everyone is

whining about it,” I muttered, turning away again. “And

chanced a glance over at him, his face was

I could stop myself. “I bet he

“Okay, now y