The Heartless Alpha’s Beloved Luna

Chapter 132 Avery's POV "Wake up." Someone was calling to me. I groaned in protest. I felt like I had only just dropped off to sleep. "Avery." the voice persisted. Slowly I opened my eyes and searched the dark room. The sun had not yet started to rise and shadows stretched from every corner. "Yes?" I asked, but there was no response. There was no one there. Confused, I sat up in bed and looked around. My body felt sluggish with fatigue, but I wasn't as tired as I thought I would be after only a few short hours of sleep. "Hello?" I called. Had I dreamed that voice?

Now that I thought about it, it hadn't sounded like anyone I knew. A woman's voice, strong and strident. ---- What an odd dream. I rose and went to the washroom. I stared at my face in the mirror in the moonlight that streamed through the windows. I looked like a ghost. My hair draped over my shoulders in long tresses and my eyes were deep and dark. Ineeded a bath. I turned on the hot water and sat on the edge of the tub, watching the porcelain fill with steamy water. "Avery," the voice spoke again and I yelped. It sounded like it was right behind me.

I whirled and jumped as I saw a pale face next to me, then a second later realized it was just me in the mirror again. I peered around the dark bathroom, but the white tile hid no intruders. I got up and looked back into my bedroom, but my door to the hallway was locked and no one was present. So strange. Perhaps I wasn't fully awake. ---- As I returned to the washroom I saw something in the mirror that made me pause. The mark on my neck was back, and it was dark and whole, covering where my neck met my shoulder. I stared at it in wonderment.

It had faded weeks ago when the Moon Goddess had given me her blessing and obscured it for my safety. Now, in the moonlight, it showed stark against my pale skin. I raised my hand to my neck and laid it over my mark. At my touch, I felt it flare hot, as though feverish, and then I felt her. 'Avery', came the voice once more, and this time I could recognize that it wasn't coming from outside, but from inside my head. There was a presence along with it, that could only have been my wolf. She was here!

exist!' I thought to her, exultantly, 'I always knew you did, but no one ever believed me!' ---- 'Tam here,' her voice sounded distant but strong, 'I always have been.' 'Then why...?' I asked, letting my confusion and frustration seep through, '...is there still something wrong with me, that you have not appeared before now?'

get stronger,' my wolf said at last. I frowned. Stronger in what way? It was true that I hadn't been eating lately, was that what she meant? Or was it something to do with my magic? I conveyed this confusion through our bond, but the wolf did not speak further. Instead, a flood of emotion came from her. Acceptance, love, support, and confidence flowed into me

to my eyes at the loving emotions. They were stronger than anything I had ever felt before. ---- 'Thank you,' I said to my wolf, 'I will get stronger.' I stared at myself resolutely in the mirror as I watched the mark on my neck fade away once more, leaving unblemished skin. Despite the confusing message, I felt overjoyed. My wolf had spoken! She was with me. Although her presence had now faded, I could still summon

and undressed. Climbing into the hot water felt luxurious on my skin, and I slid down until I was submerged. The moonlight through the window dappled the water and stroked along my skin. Ihadn't forgotten the forced apology that Gideon and Dierdra had wrung out of me, but encountering

to tackle the challenges the morning would ---- bring. Miraculously, my fatigue had fled, and with my body cleaned, I climbed from the water feeling rejuvenated and renewed. The obstacles I faced had not changed, but I had. I was no longer just Avery, Luna, or even the Moon Goddess heir (whatever that meant). Now I was a woman who had the strength of her wolf behind her. My closest friend had revealed herself to me,