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.

in this moment, though there were times when even | felt tempted by Dierdra's

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

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 this. Dierdra made pleased noises as she attempted to pull me out of my pants, but her movements were

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