The Heartless Alpha’s Beloved Luna

Chapter 315 Gideon's POV Tegan found me at the dock three hours later. +25 Bonus I was still kneeling there, staring at the water. I hadn't moved a muscle. Hadn't torn my eyes away from the shore, as if Avery would wash up at any moment, alive and gasping for breath and reaching for me. "Alpha." The Beta placed his hand on my shoulder. "We need to go back to the estate. It's getting late, and the evidence needs to be analyzed before it sits for too long." "She's out there somewhere," I said, not answering him. I clenched my fists, scraping my nails against the rough wood of the dock.

"I can feel it." Tegan sighed quietly. "Sir, we've searched the forest for miles all around. There is no trace of her beyond this point. The current is too strong for someone in her condition to swim. If she got in the water, then she might have-" "Don't." I stood and walked away. "Don't say it." The journey back to the pack was silent. I shifted and ran alongside Tegan and the others, but my mind was elsewhere. I kept replaying everything we'd found in my head. The greenhouse. The blood. The finger. Avery's finger. Goddess, I really hoped she had survived.

a team to investigate the abandoned greenhouse, I watched from the doorway as they combed through the greenhouse, collecting evidence, They measured the blood spatter. Gathered the bloody clothes, Placed my mate's little finger in a plastic baggy like it was nothing. It took hours for them to fully

second that passed felt like another second that Avery could be out there somewhere, bleeding, afraid, and in need of help, But Tegan was right; the evidence needed to be analyzed. That was the only way now to find Avery. D Finally, Tegan emerged from the greenhouse. His face was pale as he peeled off the plastic gloves he'd been wearing. THE S 1/2 Chopter +25 Bonus "What did you find?" I demanded, storming up to

We believe that she drugged her with this." He held up an evidence bag containing a small, round purple berry. "There was a strange purplish residue on Deirdre's teeth, along with a cut on her gums. It's likely that Avery forced the berry into Deirdre's mouth to make her more compliant. We'll have to analyze the sample