The Heartless Alpha's Beloved Luna Novel

---- Chapter 121 "Unfortunately, there were no signs of any rogue transport, and the people in the settlements that we've talked to haven't seen anyone matching her description." "| see." Avery folded her hands in front of her, gaze directed downwards, "Thank you for updating me." Silence stretched between us. | cleared my throat, "I was wondering if you knew of any stronghold or area the Rogue King or your sister might have mentioned while you were in their company?" | asked pointedly, While we can keep searching random areas, it requires.

incursions into Silvermoon territory which raises the hostility between our packs." "More hostile than kidnapping my mother?" Avery asked. She raised her eyes to mine and they were bleak and sad. Seeing her look so downtrodden made something tug uncomfortably in my chest. | tried to imagine how | would feel if someone | cared about was taken in the same way, but truthfully | didn't have anyone in my life who fit the role. | wanted to say something to make her understand that | truly was trying. ---- "| will help find her, Avery.

| promise." She gave a soft, bitter laugh and turned away to leave. "Is that all?" She asked, reaching for the doorknob. Anger bubbled in me. What was her meaning in acting this way? | stepped towards her and pushed the door shut once more. "What more do you want?" | snapped, "I said | will find her." "You couldn't even find your true mate." Avery's words were spoken softly but they exploded in the room nonetheless, "so how can | believe that you will find my mother?" | felt my temper rising and tamped it down quickly.

'Careful,' my wolf warned in the back of my mind, 'she is hurting.' "Are you," | scratched my claws down the door to keep myself from snarling the words, "saying that the Rogue King is stronger than me?" Avery gave me a pitying look and lifted one shoulder ina careless shrug. She didn't reply "| do not make promises lightly." | growled, glaring into her hopeless, angry eyes, "Have | given you reason to view me so uncharitably?" ---- Avery trembled at the anger in my voice, "No, Gideon," she said softly, but the hurt was still in her eyes.

The way she said my name caused something to twist within me. There were times in the last week where | had imagined her saying my name... | shook my head to clear it of the distraction, and reached out to grip Avery's shoulder. | wasn't expecting the surge of energy that leaped between us at the contact, nor the way my wolf was suddenly and immediately present in my mind with keen interest at our interaction. Avery had lurched backwards from my touch, and the minute my hand left her body, the energy faded. What was that? It had thrown me off, and | had lost the train of our conversation.

| walked back around my desk to buy myself time to clear my mind and calm my body. "| will abide by the terms of our contract," | said formally, retreating behind my usual official mask, "I suggest you do the same. | have received some complaints about tasks that usually fall to the Luna being done poorly, or left incomplete." Avery was silent for a long moment, "I will look into that, Alpha," she said. "See that you do." | directed, with satisfaction, and watched her ---- turn to leave. Strange, with Avery gone, my office felt lonely and quiet. A wave of melancholy washed over me.

No matter, | was sure Dierdra would soon return to fill it with inane chatter and noise. With a weary sigh, | turned back to my work.