Alpha's Regret After Her Rebirth by Aurora Starling

Chapter 0436

Hannah

I told him everything.

Everything.

Even the stuff that I didn’t want to think about ever again.

Over the next twenty minutes, I told Noah my entire story from beginning to end–from the moment I watched my baby’s embryo in a puddle on the floor to this very moment here, now, in this courtroom.

I told him, too, about the three months of torture that he and Zoe had put me through before my death. About Zoe’s smear campaign, about the nights spent crying myself to sleep, about the worsening body image issues.

I told him about my pill addiction–how I was taking them to the point of killing myself.

“And… Maybe I wanted to kill myself,” I whispered, my hands trembling as I toyed with the hem of my shirt, “Maybe I just wanted it all to be over, subconsciously, which was why I took so many pills. I still don’t even know if it was the diet pills themselves or the contraceptives in them that did me in.”

red clump of blood and flesh, I knew I wanted to live. I wanted to live, Noah.

on the bathroom floor three months before all of that had happened. The confusion,

dark hair falling into his eyes, and how I had thought that he was the most beautiful man I had ever seen and yet I hated him for what he

to get away from him and Zoe if my

my surprise, Noah listened. He didn’t interrupt once, didn’t mock me, didn’t challenge me the entire time I spoke. He just… listened while I recounted

and exhausted. Noah was still standing in front of me, his eyes wide and

that’s my whole story,” I finished quietly, my voice trembling. “A year ago, I died after enduring three months of misery. But

Noah was silent.

to rise in my throat. My hands began to shake, and I clutched at

that I’m just messing with you or that I’m insane. I genuinely believe that the Moon Goddess gave me another chance for a reason, although…” I paused, biting

word, Noah slowly sat down on a nearby

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my anxiety grew. The silence in the empty courtroom was deafening, broken only by the sound of my rapid heartbeat