The Heartless Alpha’s Beloved Luna

Chapter 355

Gideon's POV

Avery looked at me. Her face, which had just been smiling, fell.

Her eyes narrowed, and her mouth twisted into a scowl. Then,

she turned and walked away without a word.

My wolf howled desperately as | watched her go. Frustration and

anger surged through my chest, hot and sudden like a red-hot

poker had been stabbed into my heart. In that moment, | felt that

| would have preferred it if the security guards at her office had

simply shot me with their guns.

After everything we had been through together, after ten years of

miserable separation and searching for her and missing her, she

couldn't even look at me.

It was like she hated me. No, worse than that; it was like she felt

nothing for me at all. Like | was just a ghost from her past that

she wanted to forget about

“Avery! Avery!!” | shouted, gripping the bars of the gate. The

guards grabbed at my arms, but | didn’t let go. “AVERY!”

She didn’t look back. | watched as she disappeared into the

house, and there was nothing | could do about it. | tried to reach

out through the mate bond | knew we still shared, but there was

----

nothing there. It was as if she was cutting it off from her end,

shielding her mind so | couldn't communicate with her.

Sebastian, the bastard, calmly walked over to me with his hands

in his pockets. He nodded his chin at his men, who released me

and stepped back.

“Hello, Alpha Gideon.” He stopped just out of reach, obviously

wanting to make sure | couldn't grab him through the bars,

which, admittedly, had crossed my mind.

“I need to talk to Avery," | said

He looked at me like I'd just said something stupid.

want to talk to

“’m her mate.”

pulled one hand out of his pocket

of lint off

that you are to stay well enough away from her while

here.”

painful pang shot through my chest

clear. Just as she'd apparently done back

her employees to treat

intruder.

sense. | had done nothing to Avery. The

----

the only focus on

been some misunderstandings caused

no fool. She had to know that it was

even if

at the time to say those words out

“Why?” | blurted out.

lifted a brow. | suddenly felt small and

it

of your business,” he

indignantly, revealing

just beneath the

to put him

said,

her.”

to leave, but

He wasn't facing me, but | could

had

| must have been right. He was

it had been

Avery was mine.

| said, “if that’s what it

back.”

----

me over his shoulder.

bit scared or put off, but rather simply

a joke. Like

managed to win,” he replied,

choose you again.”

left. | shouted some choice

proud of,

roughly by the shoulders

shoving me toward my

many days, | was

a wayward

| fumbled in

could

but it wouldn't work. | would

know that | loved

was sorry. I just

car door, | felt

| turned, spotting a group of kids playing a

of them was looking at

to face him. It was

that he had a wolf, and kids

one yet—with dark hair