Chapter 366

Gideon's POV

The moment Avery's lips touched Sebastian's cheek, I froze mid- step. Her kiss lingered for a beat too long, her fingers curled around his tie like they belonged there. He shut his eyes and sighed happily, like a man in love might.

In those few seconds, the floor fell away from beneath my feet, leaving me floating above a black hole that was threatening to suck me in.

"You're not the father," she had said just yesterday.

Did that mean...? No. I refused to believe that Sebastian and Avery were together, and especially that they had had a child together.

Shoving the thoughts down, I continued moving toward her.

"Do you seriously expect me to believe that you two are together?" I asked, stopping only a foot away.

hold on Sebastian's tie, but didn't step away from him. Her hand

certainly hope so," she said

that Sebastian and

world, which had been perpetually turning on its axis up until that point, suddenly came

beating. I stared at Avery. At the point of contact between her

At the way he smiled and wrapped his arm around her waist, drawing her closer.

Ten years.

praying to whichever gods were listening that she might be out there

ago, I had miraculously found out that

a cruel joke. Avery was alive. But while I had been grieving her for a decade, while I had been losing my mind searching for some sign of her,

a long time, and it was only natural for a woman as beautiful as Avery to find a new lover. But to have

brow, thinking about Bjorn. He looked just like me, and we clearly had an affinity

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