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-”

me,” the aging doctor insisted, his cheeks trembling with

shaking legs–the poison still weakened him, although not as much as me. “Whatever you

wasn’t good enough. Doctor Patel’s eyes flicked to the doors and windows, terror etching

features.

house quickly to secure the entrances. Once we were certain that everything was locked and the curtains were tightly shut, Doctor Patel

said, growing impatient. “Whatever you have to say, now’s

flinched, but nodded. “V–Very well. You see… Goddess, I shouldn’t even be saying this…

to kill. me if

shock but remained silent, waiting for whatever

and Noah. “Your father, Marcus, came to me with a proposition; he

Noah that you were too frail for intercourse. When Alpha Noah insisted that Nightcrest needed an heir, I gave him a false date for your ovulation. I told him to try and conceive

lied to us,” Noah growled, folding his arms

I almost did. It never felt… right to do that to you, to try and