Alpha's Regret After Her Rebirth by Aurora Starling

Chapter 0465

Hannah

The doctor looked like he was about to be sick when he turned to face us. His skin had gone pale, his eyes wide as saucers, his face drawn as if he’d just seen a ghost.

“Kill us?” I sat up a little more with some effort, my arms trembling beneath my weight. Viona moved to support me, but I waved her away. “Who? Marcus?”

Doctor Patel looked back and forth between all of us. His mouth kept opening and closing like a fish out of water. There was clearly something he had to tell us, and yet it seemed he was genuinely torn between spilling it or making a run for the hills.

Most of all, there was fear in his eyes.

“If I tell you,” he said hesitantly, “you have to promise not to tell him.”

Noah and I looked at each other in astonishment. “What-”

his cheeks

poison still weakened him, although not as

Doctor Patel’s eyes flicked to the doors and windows, terror etching

features.

everything was locked and the curtains were tightly shut, Doctor Patel seemed to deflate with some modicum of relief. He sank down onto an armchair and hung his head in his hands,

it out,” Noah finally said, growing impatient. “Whatever

see… Goddess, I

kill. me if I told

I all looked at each other with shock

Noah. “Your father, Marcus, came to me with a proposition; he asked me to ensure that

false date for your ovulation. I told him to try and conceive right after your menstruation, when you are the least fertile. Since you had been starving yourself at that

lied to us,” Noah growled, folding his

a wide–eyed look. “I wanted to tell you, truly. And I almost did. It never felt… right to do that