Alpha's Regret After Her Rebirth by Aurora Starling

Chapter 0271

Hannah

The weeks leading up to the Summer Hunt passed by faster than I expected–even faster than the days leading up to the charity gala, even though the length was actually longer.

Noah and I worked side by side, true to our agreement to extend the divorce for another two months. But the tension between us was palpable, like a taut rubber band ready to snap at any moment.

Every time our hands brushed as we passed documents back and forth, every stolen glance across the room, sent shivers down my spine. My wolf whined restlessly, yearning for his touch even more than before.

The memory of our night together haunted me, making the urge stronger than it had been. It was as if that little taste of ecstasy had made me addicted, and I needed more.

Each night, I was too restless to sleep. Each night, I kept thinking of him, of the sensation of him moving inside of me, and I would purse my lips and squeeze my eyes shut and try to push Noah out of my mind. But each night, it was an impossible feat.

And each night, with my face red with shame, my hand would move under the blankets and I would whisper his name under my breath.

morning, I would wake up and pretend that hadn’t

“Hannah?”

see Noah looking at me from where he was standing by the coffee pot. He hadn’t approached me for sex since that night, and I didn’t approach him. But even as I looked at him, I was already

my head slightly to dispel the

think about

hand drawn on it; a seating chart for the banquet that would be held after the hunt, where we would–hopefully–roast and eat the deer we

my mouth full of toast as I studied the map. “But maybe

scribbled something on it with a pencil, then stuffed both the pencil and paper into his pocket. “Always thinking

want.,That was for the best, no matter now painful. And that was what that night together had been: needing. Nothing more, nothing

said. “Some

but nodded. “It’s becoming

said, “That actually reminds me; maybe we should

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