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.”

one hand out of his pocket

an invisible piece of lint off his shirt. “She made it

stay well enough away from her

here.”

through my chest at those words.

it clear. Just as she'd apparently done

to treat me like some

intruder.

made no sense. | had done nothing to Avery.

----

seen each other, the only focus on my mind had been

her. There had been

she was no fool. She had to know that

even if | had been too

time to

“Why?” | blurted out.

lifted a brow. | suddenly felt

but it was

none of your business,” he

lip curled indignantly, revealing

beneath the surface of my skin,

to put him in

don't mind,” Sebastian said, “I've got to get back

her.”

leave, but | hissed, “Are you dating

wasn't facing me,

in his shoulders. My words had struck a chord. |

| must have been right. He was dating Avery.

sure how long it had been going on, but it

Avery was mine.

| said, “if that’s what

back.”

----

over his shoulder. He didn’t look

off, but rather simply amused.

him a joke.

to win,”

choose you again.”

| shouted some choice words

of, but he didn’t acknowledge

grabbed me roughly by

premises, shoving me toward my car

time in as many days, | was thrown

like a

breath as | fumbled in my pocket

over; they could try to

| would go to any

had to know that | loved her,

her away, | was sorry. I just wanted

opening my car door, | felt a

neck. | turned, spotting a

of them was looking at me

It was a boy, no older

that he had a wolf, and kids

yet—with