The Heartless Alpha’s Beloved Luna

Chapter 102 Avery's POV | barely slept that night. Something was burning in the back of my mind. The whole interaction with Dierdra had been....off. | rose from my bed still unable to shake the feeling that something more was going on. It was hard not to second-guess my intuition. Was there actually something wrong with Gideon's mate, or did | just want that to be the case because | didn't like her? Her mark had flickered under my healing... No, there had to be something there.

| tore through the books Sofia had given me, looking for something that might give me a clue what could be causing my suspicions to flare. | should have been dressing for the day of my wedding. There was a family brunch in an hour, but instead, | curled up on the window seat in my room and flipped through pages desperately. Time was almost up when | found what | was looking for in the book titled 'Selene the Blessed'. The book was a collection of myths about a woman blessed by the Moon Goddess.

---- Unlike me, she was never mated, never marked by a wolf, but at one point in her legend she was brought before a Wolf King who intended to marry her against her will. She didn't want to marry him, and the legend said she used a potion to create a fake mark on her neck. At the end of the story, after she escaped the Wolf King who wouldn't take a marked bride, Selene touched the mark with her moon healing magic and it disappeared.

the mate mark on Dierdra's neck wasn't a true mate mark. What could it be,

here. "Ok, don't be too slow!" Camila called, grumpily. | had caused her favorite brother to be expelled from the pack, so

helping her? "Avery? Everyone's waiting!" Camila was back, and this time sounded even more disgruntled. "| just split a zipper!" | said quickly, "m changing dresses!" "Ok, well hurry up!" | listened to her footsteps stomp back down the

buy myself some time... | appeared in the door of the dining room with my best apologetic smile. "So sorry to keep you waiting," | said to the room full of guests.