The Heartless Alpha’s Beloved Luna

Chapter 426

Avery’s POV

“Gideon?” I took a step into the room. “You look like shit.”

Gideon just snorted and sank a little deeper into the cushions like an ice cream cone melting in the sun. He looked half deflated, like he might disappear into the sofa. His cheeks were flushed bright red and his hair was completely disheveled and his shirt was partially open, revealing the bristly hairs curling against his chest.

I turned, looking at Tegan with a lifted brow. The Beta scratched his head, at least having the decency to look a little sheepish for bringing me here without a real explanation.

“I think someone drugged him,” he said.

“What? Who?” I asked.

“I don’t know.” We both looked at Gideon, who was now humming along to the faint strains of the music drifting up through the house, waving his fingers in the air like a conductor. Tegan sighed. “Anyway, he was asking for you. I didn’t know what else to do, so… He seemed like he just needed you here.”

I stared at Tegan, then back at Gideon. The latter smiled.

needed you,” he slurred. “Only

the sofa, I reached out and put the back of my hand against his forehead. I winced at the heat

up at Tegan. “Get me some ice water.” I paused, then, thinking about the freshly snipped stalks at the base of the aphrodisiac plant, I added,

blinked.

his eyes that I knew all too well. I tried not to look down, but it was also hard not to notice the way his pants were tenting

looked back at Tegan. “I think he was affected by a very specific aphrodisiac that I

and left to do just that. Alone, I turned back to Gideon. He was staring at me, his eyes half-lidded and foggy but wholly focused

the woman you were

a little. “So you saw that, huh?” He traced his finger across the inner pulse point of my wrist, making me shiver. “Didn’t

his hand away, although I was blushing now. I could feel the heat forming in my face already, likely mirroring

was involved in drugging you,”

Yeah. Probably. It

Deirdre?” I blinked. “Deirdre’s dead, Gideon. You said

him for a moment, waiting for an explanation, but it seemed I wasn’t going to

water and a small