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Chapter 0454
Noah
After their vacation, Nightcrest seemed smaller somehow. The house suddenly felt too quiet, too still, after the
weekend that Noah had spent with his mate.
Noah had becaccustomed to the house being this quiet. With Hannah living in her house in Silvermoon and
no Beta around, it was usually only Noah here. He had even reduced the staff down to the bare minimum, finding
it difficult to trust anyone in his hafter what Scott and Zoe had done.
So, aside from the odd housekeeper or gardener that Noah kept on staff, he was alone.
And normally, he didn’t mind it. But after Hannah had agreed to combine their packs, to take their relationship to
the next step, he couldn't help but feel empty in the meantime.
He wanted her here. Now. But she had her own things to wrap up before she moved back in, and so for now,
Follow on NovᴇlEnglish.nᴇtNoah remained alone.
Suddenly, Noah's phone began to buzz in his pocket. He pulled it out, expecting a call from Hannah, but his
stomach dropped when he saw the unexpected non the caller ID.”
His father.
Noah's relationship with his father, Marcus, had always been a tightrope walk-strained, distant, and cold.
Marcus wasn’t necessarily a bad father, but he wasn’t a particularly kind one. Not allowing Noah to see his own
mother in the hospital before her death had been the final nail in the coffin for Noah, who gave up on trying to
have a relationship with Marcus after that.
And ever since Marcus had abdicated and Noah had taken over as Alpha, he rarely heard from his father except
for when his father wished to scold him for something or another.
Noah knew where this was about before he even answered the phone: the wedding.
No doubt Marcus had squalms about the whole ordeal with Zoe, even though it had happened months ago.
For a moment, Noah almost considered not picking up. But he knew it wouldn't help any if he didn’t, so he took a
deep breath and answered.
“Dad.”
“Noah,” his father said without preamble. “I take it you're not busy.”
Noah's jaw clenched on instinct at that initial jab-a thinly veiled attempt at making Noah seem lazy and idle. But
Noah simply replied, “I assthis isn’t just a casual check-in.”
“No, it’s not,” his father replied with a wry, humorless chuckle. “I've been meaning to call you, but I've been out
of the country on business for the past year-in the tropics. | have heard about the debacle with Zoe, though.”
The tropics? Noah thought, furrowing his brow. He wasn’t aware that his father had business in the tropics, let
alone the type that could keep him there for a full-year. But he decided not to mention it, figuring he wouldn't
get an answer anyway.
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“I assumed so,” Noah said coldly. He stepped into his office and shut the door behind himself, even though there
was no one around to hear his conversation. “And | guess you have squalms with it.”
Marcus scoffed. “That would be putting it lightly.” He paused for a beat too long for comfort, and Noah felt like
reaching through the phone to throttle his own father. “I just watched the news footage of that day. It was
humiliating.”
“Humiliating for Zoe, yes-"
“No. Humiliating for you. And for Hannah, who | hear you are back together with.” Noah could practically feel his
father rolling his eyes. “Aren't you ashamed?”
“Ashamed?”
“Well, you are back with her-the woman who humiliated you right along with Zoe.”
Noah's fingers tightened around the phone. “You're just trying to get a rise out of me, and you know it.”
“Am I?” Marcus's voice hardened, that familiar tone of cold disapproval. “Because the way | see it, Hannah took
your balls along with the divorce and now you’re crawling back to her.”
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