Alpha's Regret After Her Rebirth by Aurora Starling

Chapter 0341

Chapter 0341

Hannah

I spent the entire day avoiding the internet, too afraid and cowardly to see the backlash over the audio tapes being released. I could already imagine the comments: calling me a whore, a liar, a traitor.

I couldn’t bear to see if those comments truly existed.

So my phone remained face down on the nightstand all day, untouched and silent. If any of my friends tried to reach out to me, I wouldn’t know. They would understand why I hadn’t replied.

Instead, I buried myself in my preparations for my presentation at the Luna Council–assuming I was still invited to the next meeting. Luna Alanna hadn’t contacted me, nor had anyone else from the council. I supposed that was a good sign.

Eventually, when my eyes grew too bleary to keep working, I resorted to pacing the house like a restless tigress.

silence. Every creak of the settling foundation made me jump, my nerves frayed and on edge. I kept glancing at the doors, where the guards were still stationed. They hardly seemed to move all day, although occasionally I

Alpha to handle these sorts of things. I would be the Alpha handling them.

five months along now, and there was no

set when I finally heard the front

room, he looked exhausted, his suit rumpled and

disheveled mess.

ringed his eyes, and his shoulders were slumped with weariness. “The clip was claimed as a deepfake and taken down. We couldn’t confirm the IP address of the poster, but… for now,

whispered, afraid of

said, it was claimed to be

been holding as Noah flopped onto the sofa beside me. It felt as if a hundred–pound leaden weight had been lifted off my chest. I wanted to run to him, to throw my

voice sounded small and hopeful, even to my

But Hannah…” He hesitated, his green eyes meeting mine, a mix of concern and something else I couldn’t quite read in their depths. “Why didn’t you tell me about

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