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.

touch seemed to say. He just

was right. So I bit my tongue

not my granddaughter,” he said after taking

you mean?” I

don’t think this. But

Nor was she adopted,” I said. “I’d show you my stretch

ask such a thing.” Marcus tilted his head slightly, his eyes gleaming with something cold and unfeeling.

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

neck. “I was poisoned,” I said, wondering for a moment if maybe he simply didn’t know what had happened. “For years, someone was slipping contraceptives into my food. That’s why

cousin, Alvin, was trying to keep her from having an heir. Although we’re not entirely sure

something shift in Marcus’s eyes.

Chapter 0458

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