The Heartless Alpha’s Beloved Luna

Chapter 335 Gideon's POV I think I stopped breathing, but I couldn't be entirely sure. I might have passed out for all I knew. Hell, maybe I even died during the fight, and the woman before me was an angel. But I knew it was her. She looked up, and the torchlight hit her face, and my wolf went wild. He just knew, all at once, the way he had always known, the way he had known from the very first moment ten years ago when we held each other in the forest on that dark night. It was Avery. Our mate. Her hair was different. Shorter, darker, cut close to her jaw.

She was wearing human clothes and she had aged. But it was her. It was unquestionably, absolutely her. 1 I dropped the cloth Tegan had handed me. "Avery?" She looked up at me. For a moment, I saw something that looked an awful lot like love cross her gaze, but she quickly slammed a hard wall of ice over it and looked away. I froze with my hand still slightly extended. Sebastian pulled her to her feet, pulling her against his side, and said something sharp to the guards about how they were treating his guest. I barely heard it. I was still staring at her.

again, My wolf was going wild. For the first time in a decade, his presence wasn't hollow and full of yearning, but rather bursting with joy. Every nerve ending was firing at once. The reaction was almost violent in its intensity: I wanted

to follow her, Sebastian's Beta stepped in my path with a malevolent sneer. I tried to peer over his shoulder, but Sebastian and Avery were already gone. "The event's over for you, I'm afraid," the Beta said. "Get out of my way."

his head. "The Alpha wants you gone, so unless you want to be humiliated for a second time tonight, I'd suggest you go cleanly." I glared down at the hot-headed Beta for a long moment. He looked back without a hint of fear