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.

had taken me two days to make. I had followed Katya’s 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 it in a

drinks 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, pressed the folded paper into his palm along

the money, and moved on without a

cross the room

beside Gideon, offer a glass of champagne. Watched

let myself think about all week came up again now, briefly, uncomfortably… The image of Gideon’s face in the morning, confused and betrayed. I knew what Katya had said, that he would be

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

father had made sure I understood that that would one day

But drugging him?

forest and nearly

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late, anyway. And besides, what else was I supposed to do? My one mission in life was to make this marriage happen.