The Heartless Alpha’s Beloved Luna

Chapter 400

Chapter 400

Avery’s POV

I supposed I should have expected that question by now.

I just didn’t think it would come at this exact moment.

For a moment, I almost considered coming up with another pretty lie; that Gideon was not Bjorn’s father. That Bjorn’s father was an astronaut, or a king, or something fantastical that was too far away to reach. The kind of thing I might have told him when he was too little for it to really make much of a difference.

But as Bjorn looked at me with that face that had always been beyond his years, those knowing eyes that looked too much like Gideon’s for comfort, I just…

I knew I couldn’t lie. Not now. Not to him.

It wouldn’t be right if I did.

I took a breath and turned to face him fully. “Do you want the truth?” I asked. “Or do you want the easy answer?”

“The truth,” Bjorn said immediately. “Always the truth.”

“Even if it hurts?”

He nodded.

I exhaled, scratching my head, then moved back over to the tub. There was a small footstool there, which

I pulled out to sit on. I hesitated for a moment, wondering where to begin.

Finally, I decided to just go for it.

“Yes,” I said. “Gideon is your father.”

Bjorn’s whole face lit up like the sun. “I knew it!” He threw his hands out of the water so fast that it splashed me. “I knew he was my dad! I felt it from the very first moment I saw him!”

face with the back of my hand

“So… What now?” he asked. “Are we gonna move in with

and looked at my lap. “Bjorn, I’m… not sure if that’s the best

He tilted

a very complicated past. I’m not sure if we can love each other now, or if we ever could

doesn’t love her,”

Especially in the packs, where social status and political connections are the most important thing, sometimes people marry people they

don’t love him, then why would that stop you from marrying him in

I said. “I never have been, and I take great pride in that. Even when Gideon and I were together, before you were born, I

now,” Bjorn pointed

He does. That doesn’t mean it’s

brow furrowed. I could tell he didn’t fully understand.

“Well,” he said, “I do want a dad. A real one. But if you don’t

came to that-like many kids of

mean that?” I

know you way better than Gideon, and I love you. I can’t picture myself without

“Bjorn, that’s… That’s very

He looked at me.

“Go for it, kiddo.”

and it kinda hurts when we’re apart.

he would ask that. It still hurt a little. But then I thought about Gideon finding him in this storm. and

about it,”

Bjorn groaned. “That just means

assured him, standing. “I

“Okay.”

was about to leave again when I

“Oh, and Bjorn?”

“Hmm?”

away from Flona. Even if you spend more time

“Sure. Whatever.”

back downstairs. Sebastian had apparently showered and changed, and was now sitting by the fireplace in the living room, shivering with a cup in

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