The Heartless Alpha’s Beloved Luna

Chapter 161 Guilt washed over me again. If I had just been able to intervene, I could have saved her from this. "Pll go see her," I said, and reached for the doorknob. One of the healers reached out to stop me. I quirked an eyebrow at him. "Alpha, you should know that she's delirious with fever. She is babbling nonsense. I would recommend coming back after she's less... agitated?" "T have made note of your concerns," I said briefly, and opened the door. I saw the healers exchange looks over my head, but they didn't stop me further.

The curtains were drawn in the room, leaving it in shadowy darkness, with only a small lamp by the bedside. Avery lay pale on the bed, her hair fanned out around her like a halo. She appeared asleep but her eyelashes were fluttering on her cheeks with the rapid eye movements of her dreams. Every once in a while she would mutter, or twitch. She hardly appeared to be getting solid rest at all. Her arm was bandaged, though blood was already soaking through the crisp white linen.

calming, authoritative Alpha tone, "You're saf ---- "You will have to kill me!" Avery groaned, and at first I

are a devil! I will never betray my Alpha!" + She thought I was the Rogue King? She must be deep in the depths of fever. "Avery..." I tried to speak, to reassure her that it was me, but she only thrashed in the bed, trying

it worse," a healer appeared at my side, tone firm, though deferential. Istared at that pale, slight form writhing on the bed as I backed out of the room, unable to look away. Even as I returned to my own quarters, I could hear Avery's anguished voice saying, "He may not love me, but