The Heartless Alpha’s Beloved Luna

Chapter 218 I whirled on my heel to face my deceitful mate and struggled through gritted teeth to grind out what I had to say to her. "You have one chance-one chance only- to explain to me why you lied about this." Avery's POV As much as I had hoped for this day to come, it was still extraordinarily painful watching realization break over Gideon's face. I felt vindicated in my suspicions, but as I watched Dierdra's house of cards collapse around them both, I had the thought that if I could have spared Gideon this pain, I would have. He still had no idea how deep her deception went.

I could tell. A part of me wanted to let the illusion persist. As Dierdra stumbled into a clumsy explanation about how she had thought she was pregnant and then when she discovered she wasn't, she had been too scared to tell Gideon for fear that he would hate her... it was painful to listen to the continued lies pouring from her lips in a torrent, and even more painful to watch Gideon swallowing them with the look of a man who wanted to believe. He wanted to believe that she had done this thing for love.

Misguided, yes, but the tale Dierdra was spinning was one where she was still playing the maiden who was so eager to please that she hadn't wanted to admit the truth to him, or to herself. I knew the depth of her manipulation. He didn't. He didn't want to even consider it. And wouldn't it be kinder to leave it where it lay? To let him struggle on for a time, still believing tha mate' was naive, but kind-hearted. No. As much as I wanted to give him that mercy, I knew the truth. That poison would fester unless it was totally cleaned out.

my respect for him as my husband and Alpha meant that I could not do so. "Gideon," I said softly as I rose to my feet. Dierdra's words stopped mid-flow, and her eyes took on a new haunting expression. I genuinely think she had forgotten I was there, so engrossed had she been in spinning her new web of lies for Gideon. All it took was one look from me and she knew. She knew that I was going to tear it all

as I snatched it up a second before her hand clawed the air where it had been. I upended the bag on the bed, and out poured pieces of paper. "What is this?" Gideon said, picking one up. Then his eyes fixed on the words and he read silently. First one note,

Nightwolf Pack-our military strength, deployments, Gideon's schedule, my location... After our encounter in the parking lot, I knew that I needed to find more proof. There was no way that Dierdra was depending on finding her way offsite to meet the Rogue King every time they needed to strategize. There had to be another way they were exchanging information. After a bit of searching, I had found it. The stash of notes that Dierdra kept in her satchel, and which she