Alpha's Regret After Her Rebirth by Aurora Starling

Chapter 0269

Hannah

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I awoke with a start, the warm sun against my cheek doing little to quell my sudden jolt. The white sheets against my skin felt soft and warm but unfamiliar, and for a moment, panic gripped me.

This wasn’t my bed. These pillows, though plush and stuffed with down, weren’t mine. The curtains hanging from the windows were sheet, not thick and heavy with velvet and tassels.

And then it hit me.

Slowly, memories of the previous night trickled back. The gala, the nightmare, and then… Noah.

My cheeks flushed as I remembered the way he had carried me up the stairs, the feel of his lips on mine, the heat of his body against my flesh. His taut muscles as he moved above me. His long fingers gripping the headboard. His tousled hair falling into his eyes.

My name on his lips.

he had only just recently left the room, although I was mercifully alone

wake of a night of passion that I had never

done? This was only going to make things more complicated between us. We were supposed to be getting divorced, not… whatever

to Noah, even though we had made love just hours ago. The secret felt heavier than ever. Liar, a little voice in the back of my head seemed to

gone. His side of the bed was cold, the sheets neatly tucked. Always the early riser. It used to drive

Once inside, I showered in too–hot water, almost as if it would wash away what we had done the night before, make it unreal,

of my blouse. The mirror reflected a woman I barely recognized anymore, a woman who I hadn’t seen in a very logn time–flushed cheeks, tousled hair, eyes bright

of my stomach, there was still a pleasant emptiness lingering–like a weight had been lifted off of me. My inner thighs still seemed to burn’with the sensation of his touch, my knees blissfully weak and

monthly intimacy nights in… Well, I couldn’t even remember. A long damn time. But it would be the last time.

to my office, I tried to focus on the tasks ahead.

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Chapter 0269

to him, to the way he had touched me, the way his green eyes grew

didn’t think so; it was my