The Heartless Alpha’s Beloved Luna

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!”

respond to that. Just dried my face with the

gave me a wary look. “So… What now?” he asked. “Are we gonna move in with him?

sighed and looked at my lap. “Bjorn, I’m… not

not?” He tilted his

I’m not sure if we can love each other

he doesn’t love her,”

packs, where social status and political connections are the most important thing, sometimes people marry people they don’t

that stop you from marrying him

have been, and I take great pride in that. Even when Gideon and I were together, before you were born, I wasn’t happy

now,”

That doesn’t

a moment with his brow furrowed. I could tell he didn’t fully understand. I didn’t

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

almost expected Bjorn to want to go with his father if it came to that-like many kids of broken families did, I thought he might choose the “fun”,

really mean that?”

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

that’s… That’s

know.” He looked at me.

“Go for it, kiddo.”

to know him. I feel this connection to him, and it kinda hurts when we’re apart.

then I thought about Gideon finding him in this storm. and I found I couldn’t just say

it,”

groaned. “That

standing. “I just

“Okay.”

again when I stopped by the doorway and glanced

“Oh, and Bjorn?”

“Hmm?”

Even if you spend more time with

“Sure. Whatever.”

was now sitting by the fireplace in the living room, shivering with a cup in his hands. He looked up