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

began walking toward town. I rarely

everything from handmade hats and gloves to bottles of honey and jam and even one that

was worth purchasing, so I bought a bottle to surprise Sebastian with later at dinner. I was just browsing a booth selling handmade jewelry when I

shoulders and honey-colored hair piled up behind a paisley

at me and smiled, then took the pair of dangly earrings I was holding and held them up beside my face. She scrunched her nose, then

are better for your face shape,” she said, holding them out to me. They were small and delicate. I took them, and upon closer inspection, I could

Melissa nodded, and

basket she was holding in her arms.

“I’ll admit I don’t get

leading away from the market. “I was just heading to the

Sebastian had shown it to me 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

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