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.

When we reached the estate, Tegan immediately assembled 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

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

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