The Heartless Alpha’s Beloved Luna

Chapter 92 Avery's POV "What do you mean, attacked?" "They were training in the grounds and started arguing. The pack doctor said something to the Alpha and he turned on him. They fought!" the young man next to me was out of breath and panting as he relayed what he saw. "Who's in the ambulance?" | asked, suddenly terrified. Was Gideon injured? It felt like my heart was suddenly being squeezed ina vise. "Who do you think?" came Gideon's voice from behind me as he strode past me towards the house. At his sudden appearance, the small crowd dispersed.

| darted after him "Wait, Gideon, slow down! What happened?" | asked, trying to match his long strides. Gideon didn't slow down, taking the stairs up to the third floor two-at-a-time. "He disobeyed me." Gideon paused at the top of the stairs and turned to look down at me on the step below. "He paid for it." Then he strode down the hall to his room and closed the door. Well, that wasn't particularly enlightening. ---- | sat down on the step and watched as Gideon's parents appeared in the Great Room below, quickly joined by his sister.

They appeared to be arguing, but from here | could only hear snippets of their conversation. "hospital. Can he?" "Not the first time... out of control..." can't challenge the Alpha!" | shouldn't have been eavesdropping, but something about their body language kept me from revealing myself. They kept gesturing in the direction Gideon had gone, but none of them climbed the stairs to talk to him. Eventually they drifted out the front door and out of sight. Without having insight into Gideon's actions, | could only guess as to what had happened.

Had Hudson tried to challenge his brother for pack leadership? I rolled the idea over in my mind. It might explain why he had suddenly been so friendly towards me. If Hudson was trying to make a move on the Alpha position, then it might make sense that he would befriend me as Luna. He would be subject to the same traditions his brother faced, and would require a Silvermoon bride. ---- | already knew that Gideon would do basically anything to keep his title as Alpha, but | was shocked that his ambition included bloodying his own brother.

the bullying | had received at the hands of Zara and her friends. They saw any success | had as a threat to their own power, and tried many times to beat it out of me. Bile rose in my throat. What sort of monster was | really marrying? If Gideon would put his own family in the hospital, why did | think he would treat me with any sort of civility in the future? Feeling nauseous, | retreated to my own room and locked the

was even better. Finally, around noon, | saw a car pull up and Hudson got out. He looked okay from here, maybe moving a bit slowly. He went into his office. | finished my coffee and walked across

torn between wanting to stick to my promise, and wanting to make sure that Gideon wasn't the sort of person who would abuse his own family. 2 The conversation we'd had about building trust kept running through my mind. It stayed my hand when | was going to knock. After a moment, | turned and walked up towards the pack house instead, leaving the village behind. | hated that | felt like a coward, but something about this didn't feel right. Instead | knocked on Gideon's door. 2 "Gideon?"

knock. Thinking it must be Gideon returning, | leapt up and darted to the door and opened it. But it wasn't Gideon. His brother, Hudson, stood there instead. ---- His face looked like he had lost a fight in the parking lot, and the asphalt had won. "Oh!" | gasped,

to talk to you either, so... don't you think that's a good reason for us to talk?" His frown was similar to Gideon's, but he didn't have the same presence his brother had. When Gideon frowned, the whole room darkened. "N-nooo?" | sputtered, "Don't