Chapter 402

Avery’s POV

Gideon stared at me so long I was certain he might burn a hole through the midnight blue fabric with just his eyes.

“Are you going to stand there with the door open?” the stylist asked around a mouthful of pins.

Gideon snapped out of it and stepped inside, letting the door fall shut behind him. “Sorry,” he said, clearing his throat. “I didn’t realize you had company.”

“Clearly.” I looked down at the fabric draped over me. “Sebastian’s having a gown made for me. For the banquet.”

Gideon’s face tightened at the mention of Sebastian.

“Right,” he said. “That’s a very… husbandlike thing to do.”

The stylist glanced up at me. I just shook my head at her.

“Was there something you needed?” I asked Gideon.

“I came to speak with Sebastian about pack business.”

Down the

moment with his hands in his pockets, looking anywhere in the room that wasn’t

“Fine. Better.”

watched him for a moment and figured that if I was going to do this, I might as well do it now, while we were already in

“Gideon,” I said.

He looked at me.

a chance to see you since then,

was quiet for a moment before he muttered, “You don’t have to thank me for

I don’t have to,” I said, “but I want to.” I paused. “And I owe you an apology, too. For the gifts you brought last week. I shouldn’t have tried to

His face lit

sneakers off. Although I suspect they

do recall thinking that those

said, laughing a little myself. “Sorry about

can be replaced. Kids…

was still watching me with that soft

with her work, took a step back.

bodice feels,” she said.

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