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.

still lingered on the pillows, indicating that he had only just recently left

a night of

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

drifted to my stomach, where our child was growing–still unbeknownst to Noah, even though we had made love just hours ago. The secret felt heavier than ever. Liar, a little

up, making sure that Noah really was already gone. His side of the bed was cold, the sheets neatly tucked. Always the early riser. It used to drive me insane back when we still slept together every night,

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

fingers fumbled clumsily with the buttons of my blouse. The mirror reflected a woman I barely recognized anymore, a woman who I hadn’t seen

been lifted off of me. My inner thighs still seemed to burn’with the

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

I made my way to my office, I tried to focus

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spent with Noah. But my thoughts kept drifting back to him, to the way he had touched me, the way his green eyes grew

he think about Zoe the entire time? I didn’t think so;