The Heartless Alpha’s Beloved Luna

Chapter 422

He never looked at me like that. Not once.

And then Avery turned her head while she was dancing, just briefly, and her eyes found Gideon across the room, and I saw her smile stretch just a little further.

My stomach dropped.

So it wasn’t just Gideon. She was doing it too. Whatever was happening between them had escalated.

I’d had a suspicion ever since I found her in the woods last week, harvesting the same plant that I had cut just a few moments prior. But I’d chosen to give her the benefit of the doubt, because she had made it so clear that she wasn’t reciprocating Gideon’s affection for her.

I was wrong. It seemed to me now, as I watched their gazes lock across the room, that she had the same

idea I did.

If that was true, then I had very little time. By the end of tonight, if Avery got to him first with that aphrodisiac and seduced him before I could, then it was over. Everything Katya had helped me plan would be meaningless.

instructions exactly, double-checked everything, and the result was a fine, pale, nearly invisible powder that dissolved in liquid without leaving a trace. I had tested

table and waited. A server moved through the crowd with a tray of champagne, weaving toward Gideon. I flagged him down before he got there,

me, glanced at the

cross the room with

offer a glass of champagne.

hadn’t let myself think about all week came up again now, briefly, uncomfortably… The image of Gideon’s face in the morning, confused and betrayed.

a small part of me that hadn’t sat right with this whole plan since

an older man was one thing. My father had made sure I understood that that would one day be necessary since

But drugging him?

forest and nearly gotten him killed.

Caplex: 422

+25 Bonus

do? My one mission in life was to