The Heartless Alpha’s Beloved Luna

Chapter 168 Dierdra's POV My footsteps rang hollow on the stairs leading down from Avery's apartment. If I'd had my choice, I would have put her ina basement unit. She deserved to be in the ground. Anyone watching our interaction would have known that I had scored a mark when I had told her about the Culling. The fear that had hollowed out her eyes had been real. She knew she was inno shape to stand up to the pack if they called for her blood.

But my threats were also just that, unless I could actually manage to stir the pack to call for the culling, and I wasn't sure I would be able to accomplish that. She had a frustratingly positive image in the village, despite having been absent during her recovery. Ineeded to come up with a secondary plan. Gideon had left to handle issues on the border, or at least that's what he had claimed. I had a sneaking suspicion he just wanted to get away from me... from Avery and I both. That infuriated me as well. I just couldn't understand what he saw in that girl. She was nothing.

She came from nothing. She had no redeeming qualities, no exemplary skills, and while pretty, she was no great beauty. And was I not his mate? (I mean, I wasn't, but... you know what I ---- mean) He believed me to be his mate, and that should have been everything to him, but I could tell that his heart wasn't in it, and that terrified me. If my deception was discovered, if Gideon turned on me, I was so screwed. Even if he didn't call for my death immediately, I would be exiled, or worse. I needed to make sure that could never happen.

Avery had her suspicions, though I had no idea how she had originally managed to reveal that my mark was an illusion. It was claimed she was a great healer, and yet she couldn't even manage to heal herself, so I wasn't impressed. But it was unfortunate that she had managed to stumble across Zara and I in conference at the Alpha Ball. That wasn't supposed to happen, and I'm still not sure whether she just got lucky or someone tipped her off. Regardless, it was clear that she had suspicions but hadn't taken them to Gideon. ' I still wasn't sure what there was between them.

drug Zara gave me, they barely interacted. In every way that should matter, he should have been mine. And yet. I was a survivor, and my instincts were a large part of

threat. I needed to figure out a solution to that threat, and I knew just the person who could help me. I climbed into the pack vehicle and set out for my scheduled rendez-vous. When I pulled into the secluded glade, I saw that the Silvermoon Luna had already arrived,

was that air about him that screamed of the wilds. A Rogue's energy. His strength didn't come from pack hierarchy, but from his raw power. He was incredibly dangerous, but, he was also my lifeline. Without him and Zara, I would still just be

he had thrown over when Zara had seduced him at the Full Mating Moon. It was still very juicy gossip within Silvermoon and I could tell it got under Zara's skin. She made up for it

recovering and Gideon feels sorry for her, although I was able to get her removed from the pack house." "She must not be killed," the Rogue King's voice was commanding in the sort of way that made my spine stiffen and the hair on the back of my neck rise, "If I find out that she dies on your watch..." Iblanched at the threat in his words, "Tell me