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 you,

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

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, “And tell Sebastian

blinked.

Gideon again. His cheeks were flushed, and he had that gleam in his eyes that I knew all too well. I tried not to look down, but it was also hard not

back at Tegan. “I think he was affected by a very specific aphrodisiac that I believe Fiona was collecting the other

left to do just that. Alone, I turned back to Gideon. He was staring at me,

were

little. “So you saw that, huh?” He traced his finger across the inner pulse

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

if she was involved in drugging you,” I

Probably. It

head back. “What? Deirdre?” I blinked. “Deirdre’s dead,

stared at him for

a small hand towel, I took them from him, soaked the cloth and