The Heartless Alpha’s Beloved Luna

Chapter 406

Avery’s POV

I hadn’t seen that face in years.

Ten years, in fact.

The last time I had seen Deirdre, she had been dead. By my own hands. Lying on the dirt floor of that abandoned greenhouse with blood on her lips and eyes that stared up at nothing.

For ten years, that image had haunted me. Never in my wildest dreams had I ever considered that I might one day kill someone, and yet it had been Deirdre’s life, of all the lives, that I had taken.

And yet now here she was. Ten years later.

Alive and walking past me along a sunlit path.

I stared at her, mouth open, footsteps halting in the dirt. How was this possible? Deirdre was dead-I had watched her die.

Unless…

Maybe she wasn’t dead. Maybe I’d been too hasty in my escape. Maybe…

eyes as the woman came closer. She looked at me, noticing my stare, and stopped walking. My heart pounded as she reached up and removed

looking at me had a few similar features; face shape, general body build, same sharp look to her. But it

nothing at all like Deirdre’s tanning addiction. Her eyes

voice didn’t sound like Deirdre’s; it was deep and husky with a slow drawl that I couldn’t quite place. Deirdre’s had always been shrill and quick,

smile, although it did little to

I know.

woman’s face didn’t change. “Knew?” she

just…” I waved my hand. “Old

up one side of me and down the other, like she was studying me. I suddenly felt very small

me without another word, hips swaying as

her crisp button-down shirt, her jet black hair pulled tightly

Deirdre was dead.

let out a slow exhale. I shook my head and continued up

a few moments to adjust from the bright sunlight outside to the darkness

kitchen, my vision adjusted. Sebastian was leaning against the counter with a cup of something in one hand and his other hand in his pocket. He looked up at me, and his

us could speak, Gideon stepped into

still here?”

too excited.” Gideon’s lips

talking about pack matters,”