The Heartless Alpha’s Beloved Luna

Chapter 332 I didn't run, because that would only draw attention, and the last thing I needed was a scene. But I moved quickly and deliberately, putting as many bodies as possible between me and him, weaving back and forth in the hopes of losing him. Had he known that I was going to be here? That was the only explanation. He must have found out somehow, maybe through Sebastian, or maybe through some other channel I hadn't thought about, and he had come here specifically to find me.

Ten years of thinking I was safe and it ended at a banquet in Evergreen because I'd listened to Claire and gotten on the road like an idiot. I found the bathroom at the end of a side corridor and got inside and locked the door. It was a single occupancy room, small, with a mirror above the sink and a window above the toilet that looked out onto the side of the building. I stood at the sink and gripped the edges of it and looked at myself in the mirror. My hands were shaking. "Okay," I said quietly. "Okay. Breathe, Avery. Think." Gideon was out there. He'd seen me, maybe even scented me.

close enough. My hair was different, my clothes were different, and ten years had aged me, too. Still, I couldn't go back out there. It was too risky. I looked at the window and bit the inside of my cheek. It was not a large window, but it would work My keys were in my pocket. I could get to my car and drive away. I'd replace anything I

started walking toward the front of the building. I made it approximately forty feet

running. My wolf was all for it. But they were both bigger than me and almost certainly faster, and I hadn't shifted in ages, and making a break for it in the

could hear the noise of the event on the other side of the wall, the music and conversation carrying through. "Where are you taking me?" I asked. "To the Alpha," said the one on my left. "I'm actually a guest here. I'm not-I wasn't