The Heartless Alpha’s Beloved Luna

Chapter 253 Feeling betrayed, I turned and headed back up the path towards the pack house, tears gathering in my eyes. While the rest of the pack congregated on the edges of the woods and waited for night to fall, I was busy packing my few belongings. Technically I was supposed to be down there with the married women, who would still participate to act as guides and mentors should the younger wolves get too unruly. Emotions could run high during mating competitions, and no one wanted a bloody incident when suitors came to blows.

'You should go to him,' my wolf said sourly, 'You don't know where you're going. Here we're safe. Here your pup will be raised with their own kind.' 'Are we really safe, though?' I snapped back at her, 'Don't let your desire for Gideon's wolf override the fact that he might not keep us around once he's gotten what he wants, an heir.' 'My mate would not allow that,' my wolf sneered.

'Mine might,' I said ruefully, feeling a sense of injustice that my wolf was so sure, while I was not, 'He's let me be abandoned before.' 'You are unable to see his growth,' my wolf said patiently, 'but a pup changes everything.' 'Does a pup change it for the better?' I couldn't help but question, 'Gideon thinks I'm just like every other woman who's thrown herself at him. He's not going to change his ways just because I am pregnant. If anything, he'll probably lock me up and try to control me more!' 1 hauled my bag down the stairs, stopping to rest when I felt light-headed.

other than my Luna duties, but I was saying goodbye. I stopped in my garden one last time and put my

the time to wait. One day we'd have a child, and that child cannot be raised here. I can't have him or her grow up unhappy, the way you did, or neglected the way I was. "You need to forget about me. Find a new wife and Luna, it will be easy for

deeply as I leaned over his bed and tucked the note under his pillow. Then I turned and left. I hadn't expected this to hurt so much. After all, I had tried to leave less than two weeks ago, and while that decision had hurt, this hurt more. Perhaps it was because Gideon had showed me