The Heartless Alpha’s Beloved Luna

Chapter 383

Avery's POV

The boy was young, no older than Bjorn. He was small for his age, with sandy blond hair that had clearly once been full and shiny, but was now dull and thin and falling out, leaving behind bald patches on his scalp. I sat beside his bed, gently holding his tiny hand and rubbing soothing lines back and forth across his knuckles with my thumb.

The nurse said that his parents were no longer around; they had unfortunately passed away in a car accident when he was a baby, leaving him an orphan. He wasn't alone, though. The people of Evergreen were good and selfless.

A family took him in. Raised him as their own, and raised him well. He was a good boy, she said. Smart and kind and sweet. The sickness took him quickly and violently. In days, according to the nurse, he went from being a vibrant, healthy little boy who liked to run and climb trees to a shell of his former self. He lost weight, lost the light in his eyes, his appetite, everything. Now, pretty much all he did was sleep; when he wasn't sleeping, he was crying from the pain, so the nurses kept him sedated most of the time so he didn't suffer. It broke my heart to see a child like this.

went, it seemed.

far as we were aware, it wasn't related to soil, water, or air quality. The kids just

down since my return to the packs, I had to give credit to one thing-being here, putting up with the bullshit, could seriously help these kids.

nurse said quietly, leaning back once she'd finished injecting the

for a while. He was our first; we still didn't know if he would react at all, but his caregivers had given us the go-ahead to test the serum on

little perturbed. More so than usual, at least, which was a little concerning, because Colt always looked