The Heartless Alpha's Beloved Luna Novel

---- Chapter 351 Gideon's POV The human lands were exactly as | remembered them. | had only been here once in my life, when | was younger and visiting for a business arrangement with my father, but | hated it then just as much as | did now. The city here was too crowded, too noisy. There was no greenery in sight, and the tall buildings blocked out half of the sky. Everyone was rude, pushing and shoving and yelling, and the sound of car horns blaring was enough to make my ears bleed. "Ugh." My wolf wrinkled his nose at the scent of a hot dog cart down the street.

"I hate this place." "We won't stay for long," | replied. The tall office building, its metal facade gleaming in the afternoon light, was already coming into view. "Just long enough to get Avery and bring her home." "What if she refuses?" My jaw tightened. | hadn't thought that far ahead, mostly because | didn't dare to consider that option. After ten years of searching for Avery, I'd hoped that she would ---- be willing to talk and overcome whatever had caused her to run If it was punishment over Deirdre she feared, then | wanted to reassure her.

If it was literally anything else, anything at all, then | would reassure her on that, too. Most of all, Avery loved me, even now. | knew she did. And | was certain that if | just told her | loved her, too, then she would leave this life behind and come back to the packs with me. Where she belonged. "She'll come home," | said. "She has to." My wolf didn't respond to that, but | could feel his uncertainty. | tried to ignore it as | opened the door to the building Now that | knew that Avery was the CEO of Lycan Botanicals, it was easy to find her main base of operations.

It was an impressive building in a nice part of the human city, clean and sleek, with the company name etched into a glass panel beside the front doors. | stood in the doorway for a moment and thought about the fact that she had built this entirely from scratch, in the human lands, while I had been tearing apart forests looking for her body. It was impressive, but also frustrating. | took a deep breath and went inside. The receptionist at the front desk was a young woman who ---- looked up at me with a polite smile that flickered slightly when she took in my size.

| got that a lot in the human lands. | was already large compared to some other Alphas, and made most humans look like children in comparison. "I'm here to see Avery," | said. | forced a smile into place, trying to seem open and friendly and not too intimidating. "Do you have an appointment?" she asked. "No." "I'm sorry, but she isn't in the office today. If you'd like to leave your name, | can pass a message along when she returns." "When will she be back?" | asked. "I'm afraid | can't say." | looked at her for a long moment.

She held onto her smile, but her hands were clenched together in her lap. She looked nervous, which was normal for a human in front of an Alpha, but there was something she wasn't telling me. | was sure of it. "Listen, | really need to talk to her," | said. "It's urgent." The woman shook her head. "You'll have to come back another day, Sir." "But..." ---- "Please leave," she said. | frowned. Just then, | spotted another woman walking into the building. Another human. This one was dressed in a professional pantsuit with a briefcase in hand, and she froze when she saw me.

A moment passed between us as her eyes scanned me. A moment later, recognition flickered through her expression, followed by all of the color draining from her face.