Alpha's Regret After Her Rebirth by Aurora Starling

Hannah

I stared at the document in my hands, the Alpha Council’s approval stamp glaring back at me.

“You… When did you do this?”

Noah shrugged as he slipped his robe on. “Since the moment I asked you to be my girlfriend.”

My mind whirled as I thought back to that day six months ago–how Noah had said that he had to run back into the Council chambers for something before we left. He said he would meet me at my house, join my family for dinner.

“You talked to the Alpha Council that day,” I said quietly.

He nodded. “That was the first day I told them of my intent. They weren’t keen on it, of course. But I wore them down over the past six months.”

I swallowed hard as the implications hit me. All of the secrecy, all of the sly smiles and promises that everything would be just fine… The nights spent holding me, telling me not to worry about our future because it would work itself out.

It wasn’t working itself out. He was working it out.

on your own?” I couldn’t decide whether to be upset that he’d kept it from me or impressed that he had come this far

his gaze shifting briefly toward the flickering candles surrounding the room before returning to me. “Drake’s been helping for a few months now. Being on

in shock. “That sly

I knew how much being an Alpha meant to you, and I couldn’t

the idea. And he does hold a lot of swaying power on the Alpha Council, being the Luna Queen’s beloved nephew and

returning my gaze to the bundle of papers in my hand. “So the Council just… approved it? Just like that?” Drake may have held a lot of power, but he was just one of many Alphas on the Council–many of whom were nearly twice his

tentative approval. They’ve given us six months to prove it can work.

“Six months?” I echoed.

a festival that the Council would deem ‘successful.‘ My stomach knotted just at the

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