The Heartless Alpha’s Beloved Luna

Chapter 404

Avery’s POV

I had just barely recovered from that morning’s run-in with Gideon. The way he had played with Bjorn, so sure and steady, kept flickering through my mind like those few moments in the backyard were playing on a movie reel.

More than that, I kept thinking about the ease with which he caught the ball before it hit my face. The tender look in his eyes that made my wolf purr with contentment when she had been very much not content for a decade.

And everything that happened after that.

I didn’t know how to feel about any of it anymore. Not him, or his relationship to my son, or my own feelings.

That was becoming more and more common lately. And after a decade of being so sure I had made all the right decisions in my life, it was starting to piss me off. 1

so I threw on my sneakers and grabbed my purse and began walking toward town. I rarely went out inside the pack, which I knew was

this hour. The little market square was full of vendors selling all kinds of goods, everything from handmade hats and gloves to bottles of honey and jam

purchasing, so I bought a bottle to surprise Sebastian with later at dinner. I was just browsing a booth selling handmade jewelry when I felt a strangely familiar presence beside me that had me looking

and

woman looked at me and smiled, then took the pair of dangly earrings I was holding and held them up beside

were small and delicate. I took them, and upon closer inspection, I could

Melissa nodded, and

in town?” she asked, adjusting the wicker basket she was holding in her

wryly. “I’ll admit I don’t get

from the market. “I was just heading to the community garden, if you’d like to

once before; the main garden was a large, fenced-off plot of land with various subsections in it. Raised garden beds were thriving with plants, gazebos hung heavy with potted flowers, and there was even a section just