The Heartless Alpha’s Beloved Luna

Chapter 130 Gideon's POV As Avery closed the door and left my room, Dierdra turned her beautiful face towards me with a smile, "Well now, that's done. Good riddance to her." | didn't say anything. | couldn't. The image of Avery on her knees, swearing to me that she was telling the truth, was seared behind my eyelids. | saw her there when | closed my eyes. | felt upset, but it wasn't the rage | had felt earlier, when | had been so sure she had been lying to me.

Now I felt a cold trickle in my blood, like the frozen gush of winter's thaw, when the glaciers sent icy rivulets through our forest. The sound of Avery's cries as she pleaded with me pierced my heart with shards of ice Dierdra stretched out on the bed, tugging at my hands for me to join her. Reluctantly | lay back, but | didn't take off my shoes. | didn't want to be here, | realized. | wanted to be out there, in the night, running with my wolf. | wanted to feel something that was clean and cold and not cloying like the heat in this room, or Dierdra's body as she pressed against me.

ask me for something, or when she was unhappy, "I would like you to touch me." | continued to stare up at the canopy of the bed. | didn't crave sex in this moment, though there were times when even | felt tempted by Dierdra's figure and feminine softness. While she gave every indication that she wanted more physicality from me, something stilled my hands when | touched her. Still, | rolled towards her and

closed. "Mmm..." Dierdra moaned, wrapping her arms around my shoulders and pulling me into her, "yes, kiss me, Gideon." I closed my eyes, trying to let my body just exist here, to allow myself to enjoy this intimacy. Instead, it was Avery who swam before my mind. The way she had come to my room on our wedding night. The sweet way she had felt beneath me, and the tendemess

her fingers along the V of my hips towards where the planes of my stomach dipped into my trousers. | closed my eyes, trying to focus on the here and now. This woman was my mate. | should want