Alpha's Regret After Her Rebirth by Aurora Starling

Chapter 0461

Hannah

“He really said that about me? ‘A devil you don’t‘?”

Noah nodded solemnly as he stepped out of the shower and wrapped his towel around his waist. Dark hair fell into his eyes, dripping water onto his cheekbones before he swept it backwards with one hand.

“He seems to be under the impression that you intend to destroy Nightcrest–or what used to be Nightcrest,” he said with a derisive short.

I couldn’t help but shudder at the thought, although more from anger than fear. I knew that Noah’s father had always thought relatively little of me, and he thought even less of me after our mess of a first marriage, but this was just bizarre.

“I wish I was there to slap him,” I mused, turning to the mirror and rubbing my face cream into my skin.” First he tries to insinuate that Melody isn’t our daughter, and now this…”

“He’s just trying to get a rise out of both of us,” Noah said gently. “We don’t have to give it to him.”

I sighed and met his gaze in the mirror. “No. We don’t.” I paused, thinking for a moment, then added, “But maybe it wouldn’t hurt to do a paternity test. Just to shove it in his face.”

Noah’s dark eyebrows shot upwards at that. “Seriously?”

“You don’t think it would be satisfying to show him results that clearly prove that Melody is your daughter?”

My mate was silent for a few moments as he considered this. It was petty, I knew, but it would be satisfying. And it would shut Marcus up once and for all.

Or at least until he came up with something else to complain about.

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into the barest hint

said, draping a wet arm around my shoulders. “Let’s do it. What the

sitting in the

to have regular intercourse, let alone get pregnant. And now here I was, with

into the room with a clipboard in his hands. The aging doctor was all professional smiles and warmth, making his previous false claims about my body just

“And this must be little Melody. I’m

wryly before I could think twice. “Since, you know, I

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Alpha,” he

folding my arms across my chest. But a calming “Easy,” through my Mindlink with Noah caused

of your paternity

bounced Melody a little on his leg. She giggled and grabbed at his shirt with her chubby little hands, stuffing one

and rose. “Well, that settles that. We should get a copy to send

himself. But before we could go, Doctor Patel cleared his throat, causing us both to turn. “Alpha Hannah, it’s been so long since you’ve

poor distinction before in claiming that I was too frail to lead a normal life with my husband. But it didn’t seem as if he did so out of malice, and besides–I really hadn’t had a check–up in

I said, nodding. “Just a quick one

the room for privacy. I sat on the exam table as he listened to my heart, took

he said as he studied my blood pressure results. “Your blood pressure

“Really? I feel

can creep up on the best of us,” he said, turning the meter so I could read it myself. It did look pretty high. “Right now, it’s not high enough to warrant

things I already did; I ate healthy, exercised almost daily, and did my best to keep

edge than usual lately, what with preparing to move back into my old home with Noah, handling the logistics of the pack merger, and my usual

too.

eye on it,” I said. The doctor looked pleased and turned away to