The Heartless Alpha’s Beloved Luna

Chapter 227 I couldn't transform before because I was too weak. Now that I felt her true strength flow through me, and even that just a fraction of what still lurked within her, I understood. There had been something inside of me, something that I had carried since I was an infant, that had been suppressing my power. The wolf didn't know what exactly it was, but it had prevented my transformation long past the time most wolves would have shifted. It wasn't until recently that my own strength had grown powerful enough to start to override the block.

'But what could have caused such a thing?' 'I don't know,' my wolf said, and in the words was all her pent up sorrow and anger at having been separated from each other for so long, 'perhaps ask your mother?' 'I will,' I promised, 'but in a little while. I want to enjoy this.' Being in wolf form was unlike anything I had dreamed of. My senses of hearing and smell were so much sharper, and even the way she processed what she saw was different. Movement was heightened, while colors were muted. We paused at a small pond, where she lowered her head to drink from the water. She was beautiful.

Her coat shifted from silver to gold around the points of her body, and her eyes were great pale moons in her regal face. Finally, after what felt like hours running in the woods, rejoicing at being united at last, we arrived b the border of the woods and the pack house. I felt a last surge of love from my wolf before she retrea back into my mind, and the strange shifting transformation restored me to my human form. 1 It was hard to suppress my sense of elation as I dashed up the stairs to my mother's room.

"Mother!" I threw myself into the chair by her bedside, and clasped her hands in my own, "Do you know if I was given anything when I was a child? Some... potion perhaps? Something that could have been blocking my ability to shift for so

darted around my face, "talk to Gideon?" "What? No!" I said, annoyed that she was changing the subject, "Please mother, this is important. Something given to me that could have suppressed my wolf until now?" But it was like she had gone away inside. She just kept shaking her head and telling

gestured for me to sit. Perhaps it was the newness of my wolf-form

from this point forward?" A look of longing passed over his face, "I swear it. Avery, what's wrong? Please sit down." He moved towards me, his hand brushing along my arm, but I turned away and threw myself into the chair to avoid his advances.