Alpha's Regret After Her Rebirth by Aurora Starling

Chapter 0431

Noah

Noah sighed and leaned back in his chair, the leather creaking quietly under his weight as he shifted.

His green eyes scanned the cluttered desk in front of him, which was currently piled higher than ever with documents and evidence for the upcoming trials–not to mention all of the other tasks that came along with being Alpha.

Noah had no Luna. No Beta. And he had fired Leonard months ago when he tried to force Hannah to drink

that truth serum.

Noah was basically a lone Alpha.

He hadn’t even hired a bloody assistant to answer phone calls for him yet.

“Too bad my Beta turned out to be a snake,” he muttered to himself as he passed a hand over his weary face, a bitter taste in his mouth at the thought of his half–brother’s betrayal.

But at least Scott was in prison now–and he had made it nice and easy, too, with his full confession.

And hopefully, Zoe would soon join him there. The thought of seeing her behind bars, that pretty manicure of hers ruined and mascara streaked down her face, brought a grim satisfaction to Noah’s heart.

But the road to justice wasn’t as simple as it had once been. Hannah had put it pretty well at the Full Moon Festival: “If only it were like the movies.”

Yes… If only.

Many years ago, an Alpha’s word was absolute law on their pack lands. If Noah had lived during those times, he could have thrown Zoe and Scott into a dungeon and thrown away the key without so much as

a trial if he wanted.

But times had changed, and with them, the laws that governed their world.

Now, the Alpha Council would ultimately have to decide if Zoe was guilty enough to go to prison for life. Noah could jail her temporarily, but without a proper trial, he would have to release her eventually.

was ultimately for the best. Power gone unchecked could lead to tyranny, after all. Darkmoon was one of the last vestiges of the old ways, and look what they were

the Council’s punishments if he stepped too far out of

on a particular document amidst the chaos on his desk–the DNA test results for Adam. He picked it up, reading over the contents

to the empty room, “looks like you were telling the truth about one thing, at least.” The test confirmed without a doubt that Adam was indeed Scott’s son, not Drake’s. It was the final piece of evidence that Noah needed

enough

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her actions.

and Hannah could finally move

what those bastards had

facing her own trial, confronting Alvin for his

upcoming trial was displayed. Her photo accompanied the piece, and Noah found himself tracing

had been a month since the Full Moon Festival, a month since that kiss that still lingered on his

a single moment alone together since then, both of them too

of it, the way the world had seemed to fall away until there was nothing but

mate bond between them–the one that Zoe and Scott had

had felt it. Could still feel it now. And he knew Hannah could

sometimes, in the middle of the night when he was lying awake in what was once their marriage bed, he could feel

soul was reaching

once these damn trials were over. He really wanted her to

them.

would have to

of the past were still too fresh? But then he remembered the look in her eyes that night at the

they did get remarried

Alphas, marrying

been within the past thirty years that gay marriage had been legalized across all the packs, by decree of the Alpha Council. But even then, if

it was something, and pack leaders could actually marry who they

to marry and to keep their