The Heartless Alpha’s Beloved Luna

Chapter 240 Avery's POV I need an escape plan. The words kept running through my head the whole drive back to Nightwolf pack. A drive that felt like going backwards. A regression towards a state of being I had rejected. At least I had gotten my mother away. Gideon might still hunt for her, but now that he had me back, I was hopeful he would let her go. When we got back to the village he marched me from the car up to my rooms and followed me in. "Avery, we need to talk," he was standing by the door, arms crossed. I was seated on the bed. I was so tired.

Our escape and return had taken all night. I didn't want to answer his questions. I wanted to put my head down and sleep. I was emotionally drained from fighting Gideon, and from fighting myself. Every time we were in the same room, it took all my willpower to stay away from him. The bond between us was a steady pull that meant he was always the center of my focus. When I wasn't concentrating on fighting it, I would drift towards him instinctually. When we were in the car, my hands crept across the seat towards his hand on the shifter.

Fighting my own body, my own emotions, was fatiguing enough, but something else was wearying me as well. The thing I had seen in the mirror. When we had stood on that silver path, Gideon hadn't realized what we were looking at, but I had. The crossroads had been a marker of our point in time, each path that branched outwards a step towards a possibility. A multitude of futures. I had seen the detail he hadn't in our reflections. Gideon had seen the man and woman, he and I, on each path. I had seen a man, woman, and child.

fated mates. It had overshadowed the act we had performed, and the fact that there was a solid possibility that mating under the Full Mating Moon could result in a pup. My heat had come on so strong, I hadn't truly

he was the father, now. He had admitted to being my mystery lover from the Alpha Ball, and the man who had first mated with me when my heat came on at the beginning. That meant he was

to the door and turned off the lights. I saw his silhouette in the doorframe, illuminated by the lights in the hallway, as he stared in at me

my room, and when I went down to breakfast, his sister announced that she would be keeping me company as well. Assigning Camila to keep an eye on me was overkill, and I glared at Gideon over my breakfast, but he ignored me. Ultimately, I had to spend the next few days with a shadow, Camila trailed me as I performed my Luna duties, and would sit in my office with me while I worked. My only consolation was