The Heartless Alpha’s Beloved Luna

Chapter 427

“Your dress really is pretty,” Gideon muttered, pinching a piece of the dark blue fabric between his fingers. “It suits you. You were always a nighttime person.” As he spoke, his hand rested on my knee through the layers of silk and tulle.

I pushed his hand away with my free one. “Don’t start, Gideon.”

He huffed. “Why are you so cold to me?”

I glanced at him. His eyes were still closed, and for a moment I thought he might be speaking gibberish again. But then he turned his face toward me slightly, and I could see he was actually looking at me, his eyes so heavily lidded that I almost hadn’t noticed they were open a slit.

I considered deflecting. It would have been easy. He was delirious enough that I could say just about anything and he probably. wouldn’t remember it come morning.

That was exactly why I didn’t deflect.

“Because I’m afraid of you,” I said.

fell back down onto the cushions. “I’ve never raised a hand to

of what

like

again, wrung it out, then put it back. “The last time I was with you, I spent years waiting for you to love me. Actually love me, not just keep me around because I was useful.” I looked at his face. “You never said it. Not once.

“Is that why you left? Because you

was more to it than that, but he still didn’t know Bjorn was

I was your mate and not because you actually wanted me there. I couldn’t spend the rest of my life trapped in a gilded cage where my entire

there was something underneath the fog that

want you

then you had a strange way

“Avery-”