The Heartless Alpha’s Beloved Luna

Chapter 326 I stood there for a second, staring at the closed elevator doors. Then I looked down at the envelope in my hand. It had Evergreen Pack's emblem embossed on the front. Back in the day, an invitation like this would have made my day. Someone like me, an ex-wolfless, getting invited to a handsome Alpha's banquet? It would have sounded like a dream come true, a chance to move up in society and dress up in the way that only werewolf women really knew how to do. But now it just felt like a trap. Finally, I decided to find Bjorn.

Just as I expected, he was standing right by the corner, and popped out when I approached. "Are you gonna go?" he asked. I sighed. "No, Bjorn." "Was that my dad?" My chest squeezed painfully. "No," I said. "He wasn't." "Are you sure?" "Positive." He nodded slowly and looked down at the floor. "Oh." That one small word did more damage than anything he had said to me yesterday. Sometimes, it was easy to forget that he was only ten, and when he did that, it was a bitter reminder of how little he truly was. I looked away and decided not to berate him about the copier.

would drop the subject. But as soon as we were alone in my office, Bjorn turned to me. "If he's an Alpha, then there are gonna be other wolves at that party," he said. "My dad could be there, or someone who knows lim. If I could just-" "Your father is not in Evergreen Pack,"

give up and simply flopped into the chair in the corner with a hot huff. This time, I didn't bother to try to put him to work. I was too tired at this point to deal with any of it. The rest of the day was quiet. Bjorn kept to himself, drawing in the notebook I gave him with sharp, angry strokes. When I glanced over, I saw that he was really just scribbling, pressing the pen down so hard it was wearing holes into the paper. I decided to just leave him to

favorite: mac and cheese with a sloppy joe on the side. He barely ate it, and when I finally excused him from the table, he