The Heartless Alpha’s Beloved Luna

Chapter 87 | hadn't seen the Goddess, not directly, but a part of me hoped she had been pleased by my attempt to connect with her. Even if | was just a silly wolf-girl standing in the forest without her clothes on, | felt like I'd done something that connected me to my culture, to my ancestors. | breathed out a thank you and turned to get dressed. And that's when | became distinctly aware of the man standing at the edge of my ritual clearing Gideon's POV | wanted to punch my brother.

Hudson had known exactly what he was doing when he'd casually mentioned how Avery had "come to him for advice on mating." He'd known how | would take that, how it would get under my skin and itch like a bite. His poison was insidious. And effective. So now, like an idiot, | was hunting for my fiancée in the village, and feeling strangely panicky that she didn't seem to be anywhere I had looked ---- And the darkest part of my mind was telling me that she was in Hudson's office. Laughing at his jokes. Letting him 'examine' her. The way he'd done so many times before.

The close call that had happened in the woods a few nights earlier didn't make me feel any better. Lieutenant Quinn assured me that our triple patrols had encountered no further signs of rogue activity in our territory, but it had still been a close call. So, it was those dark thoughts keeping me company as | began the hunt for Avery in earnest | knew she wasn't in her room, or in my office. She wasn't in the mess hall or the garden. If she were in her wolf form, it was possible she was out roaming the woods, though to what purpose | certainly couldn't guess.

wolf take over the hunt. Holding him back when the moon was full was draining anyway. He wanted to run. He wanted to hunt. Embarrassingly, he wanted to mate. All his desires flooded through me as we switched. "What are you doing?" | asked him, as he stuck

was in human, not wolf, form. Then he switched us back, so now

---- | stepped forward, as if in a dream. It felt so similar to that time .. to the last mating moon. And then | realized