The Heartless Alpha’s Beloved Luna

Chapter 84 Avery's POV "So you're Avery." I turned to see a wizened old woman watching me from the edge of the woods. "lam. Who are you?" She just gestured for me to follow and turned to head through the woods. "What did you do to them?" | asked, but she just kept walking. After a moment, | scurried after her. The leaves crunched underfoot as we followed a winding trail through the forest that opened into a broad meadow. At the far end, there was a rather large country cottage. This must be what my mother had circled on the map. "Oh nothing, really." The woman said.

She moved very spiritedly for someone her age. "They will wake up once you return." "So, you're saying I'l be able to return." | said drily. "Oh of course. I'm not going to eat you." The woman sniffed as we trekked across the tilled field. "I'm not hungry." ---- Well that was reassuring. "| take it you know my mother." | said as she marched up to the door of the cottage and scraped the mud off her boots on the boot scraper next to the door. "Oh yes." She opened the door and waved me in.

you" "You can call me Sofia." The old woman said, showing me back to her kitchen where a wooden table sat next to casement windows with cheery half-curtains. "Well, Sofia." | paused, not sitting quite yet, "Why did my mother direct me to you? And is she here?" "| haven't seen your mother in

Sofia's manner made me feel like | could tell her anything, "I need to get out of an arranged marriage." "Your mother arranged a marriage for you?" Sofia looked shocked "Well, not exactly. My father was threatening to kill me, unless | married someone. My

long ago. | admit, I'm not surprised to hear he's still a troubled man." That was putting it lightly. "So now you're stuck with this Alpha...?" "Gideon." "Alpha Gideon." Sofia nodded, "And you want out." "Yes, but | made a