The Heartless Alpha’s Beloved Luna

Chapter 417

Avery’s POV

I couldn’t stand being in the greenhouse for another moment that night. 1

I cleaned up the broken glass, salvaged what I could of the experiment, and moved the whole operation to the kitchen table instead, where I worked until two in the morning and then fell asleep sitting up with my cheek on my notes.

That became the pattern for the next several days. I woke early and worked late and kept my mind on the Lycan Root and nothing else. I reworked the distillation process, adjusted the ratios, worked the aphrodisiac plant down into something that was barely recognizable from its original form by the time I was done combining it with the other herbs.

The resulting compound was a deep reddish-brown liquid that smelled faintly sweet and looked nothing like something that could cause the kind of chaos it had in its raw form.

I brought it to Aldric on the fourth day. He looked at it, then at me, then had the clinic nurse administer it to both children that afternoon.

We wouldn’t know if it worked right away. These things took time. But when I returned to Aldric’s pack the following day, the nurse said that the little girl’s fever had already come down slightly. Back home, the little boy had apparently opened his eyes for the first time in two weeks.

Sebastian was waiting in the kitchen when I got home from checking on the children. He had two cups of coffee on the table and pushed one toward me when I sat down. I took it gratefully even though it was probably too late in the day for caffeine.

He looked at me for a long moment. “You look terrible,” he said.

“Thank you, Sebastian.”

When did you

sleeping…

count.” He wrapped both hands around his cup. “What’s going on with you? And

my throat, begging me to just tell Sebastian about it, but I couldn’t. I wanted to swallow it and

stressful week,” I finally said. “I’m just tired, that’s

a moment, clearly not buying that that was all it was, but didn’t press

matter.

is tomorrow,” he said after a moment. “Which means tonight you are not allowed to work.” He stood, picking up

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put those salts in it that

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run out like six times