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…

noticing my stare, and stopped walking. My heart

then that I realized that it wasn’t Deirdre at all. The woman looking at me had

had jet black hair. A small button nose dotted with freckles. Pale skin, nothing at all like Deirdre’s tanning addiction. Her eyes were a deep

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

I shook my head and forced a smile, although it

someone I know.

woman’s face didn’t change.

waved my hand. “Old

of me and down the other, like she was studying me.

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

Took 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.

that I finally let out a

eyes a few moments to adjust from the bright sunlight outside to the darkness within. I blinked, feeling my way toward the kitchen, where I

vision adjusted. Sebastian was leaning against the counter with a cup of something in one

could

still here?” I blurted

too excited.” Gideon’s lips

got caught up talking about pack matters,” Sebastian