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!”

dried my face with the back of

a wary look. “So… What now?” he asked. “Are we gonna move in with him? He can teach me how to be an Alpha. I want

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

not?” He tilted his

can love each other now, or if

he said he doesn’t love her,”

like that sometimes. Especially in the packs, where social status and political

why would that

I take great pride in that. Even when Gideon and I were together, before you

says it now,” Bjorn pointed

doesn’t

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

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

to that-like

really mean that?” I

mom. I know we fight sometimes, but I know you way better than Gideon, and I love you. I

that’s… That’s very mature of

“I know.” He looked at

“Go for it, kiddo.”

I feel this connection to him, and

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

think about it,” I

groaned. “That just means

standing. “I

“Okay.”

leave again when I

“Oh, and Bjorn?”

“Hmm?”

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

“Sure. Whatever.”

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

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