Alpha's Regret After Her Rebirth by Aurora Starling

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Hannah

I followed Zoe’s finger, and there he was: Leonard, standing by the entrance with the most smug look on his face that I had ever seen. Bastard. He set this up–trying to get under my skin again, wasn’t he? Well, I wasn’t about to let him. Not again.

“Is there a problem?” Noah, whose presence I had momentarily forgotten, sidestepped around me.

I shook my head and offered him a serene smile, gesturing to the empty seat next to Zoe. “Looks like we’ll be having some additional company tonight.”

Noah glanced back and forth between me and Zoe for a moment, clearly trying to discern whether I was being facetious or not. Finally, when my smile didn’t falter, he nodded and took his seat. I did as well, making a pointed effort to smile the whole way, just in case Leonard was watching me.

Despite my earlier upset, the opera was simply breathtaking. The music filled the vaulted ceilings of the theater, the singers‘ voices ringing out like angels descending from above.

Soon, my annoyance had subsided, too enthralled by the beauty of it all to care about anything else. I leaned forward in my seat, completely enraptured by the rich voices, and even felt a tear come to my eye during the first kiss scene even though I couldn’t understand the language that they were singing in. During a particularly emotional scene at the climax of the show, the male and female leads of the opera were being pulled away from one another by actors dressed in black robes and masks. Their voices grew strained, desperate, and my breath caught as I pressed my fingers against my lips.

placed my other hand on the armrest beside me, accidentally brushing against

inside of me. It had been so long since we had touched like this, even accidentally–far

that seemed like they had happened a lifetime ago. And for a moment, the opera faded into the background, and there was

was like when things were good between us, when a simple touch could convey so much. My

Noah’s reaction, I

our hands touching. He was leaning toward Zoe, whispering something in her ear that made her giggle softly, her

of them, so close and

I yanked my hand away, clenching it into a fist in my lap. Noah didn’t notice

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I refused to let them

my attention back to the stage, but the beauty of the performance

me now.