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-”

the aging doctor insisted, his

resistance, stood on slightly shaking legs–the poison still weakened him, although not as much as me. “Whatever

enough. Doctor Patel’s eyes flicked to the

features.

and the curtains were tightly shut, Doctor Patel seemed to deflate with some modicum of relief. He sank down onto

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

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

kill. me if I

with shock but remained silent, waiting

after you two got married.” He glanced up at me and Noah. “Your father, Marcus, came to me with a proposition; he asked me to ensure that you two didn’t conceive. Told me that there was a horrible defect in your bloodline,

Alpha 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 right after your menstruation, when you are the least fertile. Since you had been starving

lied to us,” Noah growled, folding his arms

did. It never felt… right to do that to you, to try and take away your choice