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…

the woman came closer. She looked at me, noticing my stare, and stopped walking. My

then that I realized that it wasn’t Deirdre at all. The woman looking at me had a few similar features; face shape, general body

Deirdre’s tanning addiction. Her eyes were a deep brown and her lips were full

her 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, and she didn’t have an accent like this

a smile, although it did little to slow my racing heart.

someone I know.

face didn’t change. “Knew?”

it’s just…” I waved my hand.

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

then she brushed past me without another word, hips swaying as she walked down

in her tight slacks, her crisp button-down shirt, her jet black hair pulled tightly into a bun at the back of her neck. Her stride was familiar, but

Deirdre was dead.

behind a bend in the path that I finally let out a slow exhale.

to the darkness within. I blinked, feeling

was leaning against the counter with a cup of

us could speak, Gideon

still here?” I blurted

sound too excited.”

got caught up talking about pack matters,”