The Heartless Alpha’s Beloved Luna

Chapter 55 Gideon's POV A rainstorm was rolling in as | marched across the village to our holding cell once more. | pulled up the collar on my coat and squinted into the night rain. If Tegan's intel was correct... | needed to hear it from the prisoners themselves. They were somewhat shabbier than when | had seen them last. The interrogations over the last few days had left them exhausted, with dark circles under their eyes. | could tell from their dull expressions that they expected us to kill them.

| suppose most Alphas would | stepped forward and addressed the warrior who had overseen their confessions. "Report." "Alpha," The warrior, whose name was Quinn, nodded her head and began, "The rogue wolves have revealed the instructions they were given initially." ---- She held out a notepad to me, covered in scribbled notes, but three words were written at the bottom in thick ink and circled repeatedly. | read them out loud, "Moon Goddess Heir?" "Yes, Alpha." Quinn verified.

"They claim that they were told to look for a girl, approximately aged 19, worth immense value due to her bloodline." So that was why they had been kidnapping women and girls. They had been looking for a girl carrying the legendary moon goddess lineage. "Isn't that a myth, nothing more than a legend?" | asked. There were many stories in werewolf culture about the Moon Goddess, the ancestral deity of werewolves according to lore. Like most wolves, | saw those stories as nothing more than fairytales.

The Moon Goddess was a figure that mothers prayed to for protection for their children, but nothing more I had long ago come to believe that the gods were all dead. Why else would they abandon us so? Quinn paused, "Yes, Alpha. While | cannot confirm the person they are searching for, they definitely are true believers that she exists." ---- "Exists and must die!" one of the prisoners spat. | quirked an eyebrow at Quinn. "Sir, the man who is organizing these kidnappings has been killing the girls he finds.

felt my mate Maybe she was dead. Grief for a love I'd never had a chance to grow swept over me like a wave. "We don't

the rogue incursions had been correct. There was a singular entity pulling the strings. ---- | spun to the men who were chained to the wall. "What did he give you to perform these kidnappings?" | demanded, looming over them. They cowered away. "Nothing, Alpha." "Nothing? No payment?" "Some of the girls he allowed us to spare and keep as slaves and servants." one admitted, "It's the legend that makes us do it. The

pack in-fighting! Just wolves looking out for wolves without rules!" "You want anarchy." | summarized dryly. "How novel. Let me guess, he finds angry, rejected

surprised, "Yeah, that's about the gist of it. How did you know?" ---- | cursed and

hastily. She handed a map to Tegan with several areas circled in red. | glanced at the map as Tegan unfolded it. Most of the hideouts were located in Silvermoon territory. Of course. Ryan was a weak new Alpha, he would be lax in patrols, making it a perfect place to set up a rogue infestation. What

territory before he ever truly controlled it. Tegan looked at me, "Do you want us to clean out these areas, Alpha?" | pondered the question. If left unchecked, Silvermoon might be overrun. While | wouldn't personally be sad to see Ryan ---- overthrown, their weakness could quickly become our liability. "We need to clear those areas." | said finally. "Although if Silvermoon can provide the supplies and reinforcements