The Heartless Alpha’s Beloved Luna

Chapter 148 Avery's POV Dim light was filtering past the window curtains when I groggily pulled myself from sleep. Something had awoken me, but for a moment I wasn't sure what. My mind was full of hazy memories, and it took me a long moment to remember where I was. Ah, right. The Council palace. Thad... been at the ball? And then... Someone had escorted me upstairs. We had been going to an alcove, no, my room. Then we'd ended up in an alcove... then... I squinted my eyes at the ceiling, trying to remember. Why was this so hard? Thad ended up in this room.

My room here at the council palace... There had been a man here... I hadn't seen his face but we had... oh god... Some of what we had done filtered through my memories suddenly, and I blushed and squeezed my eyes shut. Not again! There was a loud noise outside the door, and then a loud banging on the door that entered my room from the suite common room. "avery?" it was Dierdra's wheedling tone, and the sound of her voice made me wince. I flopped back on the bed, shoving my ---- discarded dress to the floor and stretching out. My body felt languid and exhausted, well spent and well pleasured.

"Pm coming in!" Dierdra yelled, and my eyes shot open. "No, no, no!" I snatched a sheet off the bed and flung it, and myself at the opening door, through which Dierdra had shoved her foot. "What's going on in there?" I heard a bunch of people in the room beyond, and the voice sounded like Zara's. Through the crack in the door, I could see quite a few people roaming around. Other Alphas and Lunas that I didn't know. "This is my bedroom!" I snapped, "What the hell are you doing?" What were they thinking trying to force their way in?

I glanced at the room behind me, at the rumpled sheets and discarded clothing. Discarded men's clothing. oh. A shirt was tossed on the floor, along with a belt, though I didn't see any pants anywhere. Why would he leave without a shirt? Why would he leave me at all? For a moment | felt panic rushing through me. How could I let this happen again? My mystery lover had snuck off and left me alone? Curse him! And curse me for falling asleep and letting him sneak off! ---- I felt an ounce of shame that he must have felt the same way after I left him the first time.

was in the shower in my room?! Oh god! And all of these people were about to

of onlookers that Dierdra and Zara had apparently rustled up to witness my shame. ---- I didn't see him, and felt a surge of relief at that. Whatever Zara and Dierdra had cooked up, whatever humiliation they'd devised, at

of my memories of the night before felt so muddled, as though I'd been drinking. I needed to find Reynaud, assuming he was the one I'd been intimate with. Horror flooded through me as

you were unfaithful last night!" Dierdra crowed, and curious faces thronged at the doorway, looking in at me with judgy stares. "Don't you have a husband?" Zara sneered, snatching the man's shirt of the floor, "Whose shirt is this?" "J..." I didn't know what to say, feeling

I allowed to have relationships?? It was so unfair. "1 know what you're doing," I hissed at Zara, "Trying to create a scandal around me won't absolve you two of whatever you've been plotting!" "You don't know anything," Zara smirked, "you probably don't