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!”

my face with the back of my hand

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

my lap. “Bjorn, I’m… not sure

He

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

doesn’t

that sometimes. Especially in the packs, where social status and political connections are the most important thing,

love him, then why would that stop

not like that,” I said. “I never have been, and I take great pride in that. Even when Gideon and

says it now,” Bjorn

He does. That doesn’t mean it’s true.”

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

one. But if you don’t

it came to that-like many kids of broken families did, I thought he might choose

mean

my mom. I know we fight sometimes, but I know you way better than Gideon, and I love you. I can’t

eyes filled instantly. “Bjorn, that’s… That’s very mature

at me. “But… can I ask

“Go for it, kiddo.”

dad? I want to get to know him. I feel this connection to him, and it kinda hurts when we’re apart. I’d like to get a chance to hang out with

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

think about it,” I

groaned. “That

I assured him, standing. “I just need to

“Okay.”

about to leave again when I stopped by the doorway

“Oh, and Bjorn?”

“Hmm?”

away from Flona. Even if you spend more time with Gideon,

“Sure. Whatever.”

showered and changed, and was now sitting by the fireplace

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