The Heartless Alpha’s Beloved Luna

Chapter 396

Gideon’s POV

The rain was coming down hard enough now that I could barely see ten feet ahead of me without the flashlight.

Sebastian was keeping pace just beside me without saying anything. We moved north, toward the creek bed I’d mentioned to Avery. I kept my flashlight low and my eyes on the ground.

There were no signs of Bjorn.

“How long have you known her?” I suddenly asked. I cringed a little the moment the words came out of my mouth, but I needed more information on their so-called “relationship”, and now was as good a time as any. It wasn’t often that I got to be alone with Sebastian, so I wanted to take advantage of the opportunity.

Sebastian glanced at me. “What?”

“Avery,” I said. “How long have you known her?”

“Long enough.”

I waited to see if he would say more, but he didn’t.

“Where did you meet?”

human city. We ran into

of a cute story about how you met, or your first

said, “I appreciate the effort to make small talk, but I’m trying to

he

this whole thing was a shitty facade for the truth: that Bjorn was mine, and Avery was lying for

Bjorn might be, he was in danger, and we needed to find him before this storm

fast and brown through the darkness. I checked both banks and found nothing.

have gone uphill,” Sebastian said.

“That would be the smart

climb properly without breaking an ankle. I went first, slipping on the muddy switchbacks, and Sebastian followed. The wind was worse up here, whipping through without any of the trees to slow it down. The rain grew cold and almost painful against the skin as it

reached the top, and I sniffed the

Something… was up here.

A scent.

perked up as the familiar scent washed over us. I glanced at Sebastian,

after a long journey. The only other person in the world that I’d felt that way with was Avery, although this was slightly different. It felt

a family

Bjorn