The Heartless Alpha’s Beloved Luna

Chapter 57 | didn't have an immediate answer, so | just indicated for her to follow me out into the garden once more. | handed her a hoe and led her over to where the diseased plants were. "These plants are sick, so we need to pull them up and burn them." | instructed, handing her a pair of gloves and putting some on myself. Madelyn nodded and began to work We piled the plants into a wheelbarrow and dumped them into the flames. After a while | said, "I was very alone in my old pack. Most people wouldn't associate with me.

So | know what it's like to feel alone where you're supposed to belong." | stared into the flames, not wanting to look at her while | confessed my painful past. Madelyn was quiet for a while, then asked, "Somehow it hurts even more when it's the people who are supposed to be yours, you know?" | did know. | thought of my father, who had only told me that | shamed him when my wolf hadn't manifested, and had threatened to kill me if | didn't find a husband. My own half-sister had stolen my ---- boyfriend and used it to hurt me.

| want to give you a second chance, and show kindness where there isn't any." | admitted. "It might seem stupid, but nothing else I've tried has worked, so why not this?" She gave me a small smile back, then said after a pause, "I told you that Jessica had something over me." "Yes?" | looked at her curiously. "I'm in love with her brother." Madelyn confessed, "I don't think he likes me that way, he's always so busy as

know it sounds stupid, but she seemed so nice at first. When | finally realized she wasn't a good person and tried to stand up to her, she threatened to tell him bad things about me. Like telling him that | sleep around, do drugs, and worse." 1 Tears welled up

to let her win. I'll put in a good word with Tegan for you." Madelyn turned to look at me with wide eyes, "You would do that?" "Absolutely." | smiled back.