The Heartless Alpha’s Beloved Luna

Chapter 75 For a moment all went black. My vision cut out and all the air was knocked out of me. The rogues had scattered away, but | heard the crunching of leaves as they moved towards me. Then | heard the primal roar of an Alpha wolf. "Get him!" Someone screamed. | heard the twang of the bow again, and then one more time. Then there was a lot of screaming Then silence. Someone landed hard on the ground next to me. | groaned and tried to roll away. | blinked as my vision slowly cleared. | turned my head to look, and met the vacant stare of a dead man.

One of the rogues, his throat ripped out, | rolled painfully to hands and knees and looked around. There were bodies scattered across the ground. Blood gleamed black in the moonlight. Someone was breathing heavily. | moved towards the sound. A massive wolf stood over the last stirring rogue, who breathed ---- a final gasp as they bled out into the dirt. The wolf growled and shook his blood-stained muzzle, then leaned back and howled. It was a long, terrifying declaration of victory, and a warning.

| didn't need to be in wolf-form to understand the visceral threat and fury in that ancient sound. The wolf turned its golden gaze towards me. | realized with a start that | knew those eyes, those burning coals that bored straight through me into my soul. This was Gideon's wolf. | gasped with relief and inhaled a breath that was half sob. | sank back to the forest floor and let the terror release from my body. Then | hauled myself to my feet and limped to the wolf. He watched me approach silently, but snapped a warning when | got close "What's wrong?" | whispered, confused.

sound of the bow being fired. "Oh shit." | exhaled, falling to my knees in front of Gideon's wolf. He huffed the air and made a low sound. "That's gotta hurt like a bitch." | said, my hands

bind it." Up close, | could see why Gideon wasn't shifting back. An injury like this was in a tricky part of wolf anatomy that could become embedded more deeply into his human form if he transformed. While werewolf parts generally mapped to our human anatomy 1:1, that

in close proximity to the lungs and heart, it was too risky to shift. It might embed the arrowhead deeper into a ---- vital organ, or someplace harder to reach, like