The Heartless Alpha’s Beloved Luna

Chapter 212 Concern flowed over me. After all, if the Rogue King decided that Avery was paramount to his plans, that must make Zara and I relatively more expendable. If he decided to do away with one or both of us instead, there would be little I could do to stop him. Did I need to watch my back? If Reynaud had lost a powerful ally on the Council, then he would need Zara and I more than ever. I just had to continue to ensure that I was indispensable to him and his plans. Still, the Rogue King's fixation on Avery made me feel uneasy, like I had a target on my back.

If it came down to saving me or her, it was pretty obvious how he would choose. I had agreed to this plan to try and secure myself a place in a powerful pack, and the way the situation had been presented, it had sounded like it would be the easiest thing in the world. Just seduce Gideon, and manufacture the situation so that Avery was ousted and the Rogue King could snap her up for himself. But although I had been somewhat successful, Avery was still a thorn in my side. While I had her doing her weeks of punishment, I had thought we were winning.

Surely, I thought, Gideon will soon divorce her and we can move on for good. Now, ina sudden stroke, all that had reversed. Avery was restored to Luna, and it sounded like she had even earned social capital in the eyes of the Wolven elite. Furthermore, I had badly misjudged Gideon's true feelings towards her. ---- He had fooled me. I would not give him another chance to do so again. As I drove back to Nightwolf pack, I was troubled about the sudden increase in power I had felt from the Rogue King.

all these setbacks would have caused his aura to diminish, but the exact opposite was true. So what was the source of this surge in his power? Alphas gained in strength from the number of warriors and powerful wolves in their pack. The most powerful Alphas were strong because their packs were large, but also because they had to be powerful enough to keep

reckoning of ancient pack laws, someone like the Rogue King shouldn't even have been able to exist. He didn't have a traditional pack, or village, or other base of Wolven souls that had pledged

already halfway to the pack house. ---- "Have a nice meeting with your co-conspirators," she asked, and it took all I had not to jump out of my skin at the accusation.

from outside, not the enemy within. Avery's smile