The Heartless Alpha’s Beloved Luna

Chapter 116 Avery's POV Six hours later found me standing in Gideon's office staring at his fake-mate as she flounced out the door. Gideon had summoned me the minute | had awoken from my early morning slumber, and | had no choice but to heed his summons. | didn't have choices about a lot of things these days, it seemed. My heart was already bruised and battered. My mother was missing. Some man titling himself the 'Rogue King' wanted to make me his baby-factory, and my new 'husband' had been smooching with his mate when | had entered.

Or, at least that was what it had looked like they had been doing | had turned my head to the side immediately, flushing a bright, embarrassed red. The haughty and smug look Dierdra had shot me as she left had been nauseating, and so had been the way Gideon had stared at the door after she'd closed it. | stood there, silent, waiting for him to remember that | was present. | guess | was back to being invisible. Finally, Gideon jolted himself back to attention and rummaged through the papers on his desk.

---- "Avery." he said my name so formally, as though we hadn't been kissing passionately on his bed the night before, On our wedding night. "Alpha." | replied, matching his tone. His eyes flickered at me for a moment, then he went back to flipping through files. "| assume you had a reason for calling me." | said, after he didn't say anything further for a number of moments. "I did. Yes." Gideon snapped. He pulled out a sheaf of papers and snapped it onto the desktop. "But before we get into that, | wish to hear an accounting of your actions in the last 24 hours." | stared at him, mutely.

My lips pressed between my teeth. What did he want to hear? That I was sorry? If he demanded an apology, could | truly dare to refuse? | was. essentially his prisoner here. "What do you want me to explain, Alpha?" He looked a bit annoyed that | refused to say his name. But names were things you called your friends. We were no longer friends. Now we were husband and wife, which apparently, meant we were enemies.

so." Gideon's body language as he crossed his arms was looming and imposing. | felt like a small child called to task in school. It took all | had not to shuffle

have made that clear in the past." | gritted out through clenched teeth. "I have reason to believe that my half-sister has hidden my mother in some secret place, and that she will harm her." Gideon paused, turning his head to me incredulously, "The Luna

| wasn't sure that Gideon would believe me if | told him the whole story. We weren't exactly on ---- good terms at present "There was another man there. A rogue. He called himself the Rogue King." Gideon's eyebrows raised. He gestured impatiently for me to continue. "| believe they are

him come to that answer on his own. He hadn't believed me about Dierdra, and he hadn't believed me when | had said I hadn't sought out Ryan. Why would | assume he would believe me if | came to him for help? "Avery." Gideon snapped my attention back to him with frustration and | realized

believe me because he stepped back. | stumbled as he released me. For a moment there, his touch had felt warm, and | had fought the urge to press myself against him, to let him wrap his arms around me. "| will protect you." Gideon would say, and | would nod and let myself believe it. It was