Alpha's Regret After Her Rebirth by Aurora Starling

Chapter 0458

Chapter 0458

The glass of wine I had just sipped nearly went down the wrong way. This again?

I coughed, blinking in disbelief as I set the glass down, my fingers gripping the stem a little too tightly.” Marcus, you must be joking,” I said, forcing my tone to remain even. “She has your son’s eyes, for Goddess ‘sake.”

Marcus set down his fork with exaggerated precision, his eyes sharp as they fixed on me once more.

“Oh, I know. But it just seems rather… convenient, that’s all,” he said, his voice maddeningly calm. “A child appearing at just the right moment, securing your position as Luna and ensuring the future of Nightcrest. Why, if I didn’t know better, I’d wonder how it all happened so… perfectly.”

“Alpha,” Noah corrected, setting aside his steak knife. “And Silvercrest. And it wasn’t ‘perfect‘; we dealt with a whole mess of shit to get to this point.”

Marcus’s lips curled into a tiny smirk. “Right. My apologies.”

I went to tell him to stuff his ‘apologies‘, but Noah’s hand slid under the table to find mine, his fingers wrapping around mine with a silent warning.

say.

right. So I bit

glass of wine. “For what it’s worth, I don’t genuinely think that she is not my granddaughter,” he said after taking a sip, “but you should expect that some people may believe otherwise. Desperate times often call for desperate measures,

you mean?”

his hand dismissively. “Again, I don’t think this. But

“I’d show you my stretch marks to prove it, but I don’t think that would be appropriate for a

gleaming with something cold and unfeeling. He paused, his tongue

to extreme lengths to secure their position, though,” he said, as though the idea were perfectly reasonable. “After all,

he simply didn’t know what had happened. “For years, someone was slipping contraceptives into

keep her from having an

shift in Marcus’s eyes.

Chapter 0458

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