The Heartless Alpha’s Beloved Luna

Chapter 61 Hmph. "So you deny that you still have feelings for him?" | growled, keeping her pinned. "| do deny it!" She glared at me. "He used me and threw me away! How could | love anyone who treated me like that?" A wounded look crept into her eyes that | hated to see. "Zara thinks that she stole a prize from me, but really, | was the one who dodged a bullet." Avery's lips twisted in a grimace, " And one day she is going to realize the sort of man she really married." "| hope you know that | would never behave like he did." | frowned.

Avery froze into stillness beneath me, as though those words had touched her in some way the rest of our argument up to this point hadn't. "| don't know what to believe about you." She breathed softly. Her fingertips rose to my face, almost touching, but pulling away. A spark flickered from the tip of her finger to my cheekbone, shocking me. Literal energy flying between us. ---- Her pupils flared, and | found myself lost in the depths of her eyes, ocean-deep and just as mysterious.

The doubts rose in me again, but each time, | inhaled her scent and reminded myself that she didn't smell like deceit. She was telling the truth. She had been waiting here just for me. "Will you believe that I'm sorry?" | said back. Her eyebrows shot up, "You're... apologizing?" "| understand it's the thing to do when one is wrong." | said, gruffly. "I overreacted." She huffed out a small laugh. "| don't understand you at all, Gideon Nightwolf. But | accept your apology.

restrain her, | hesitated. She felt... right beneath me. The way we fit together... There was a familiarity to it. 1 |

to my hands. Above all, | wanted to sink my teeth into the curve of her shoulder and bite. The scent of her arousal grew stronger, as though she could sense the bent of

Why is this so hard? She's not my mate! | growled in my throat and felt my hips twitch forward, seeking to claim, to let her feel every inch of me as slid inside of her. Her lips had parted slightly, her breath coming in short pants as. she breathed in my own scent, nostrils flaring. | saw her lips flush and her