The Heartless Alpha's Beloved Luna Novel

---- Chapter 366 Gideon's POV The moment Avery's lips touched Sebastian's cheek, | froze mid- step. Her kiss lingered for a beat too long, her fingers curled around his tie like they belonged there. He shut his eyes and sighed happily, like a man in love might. In those few seconds, the floor fell away from beneath my feet, leaving me floating above a black hole that was threatening to suck me in. "You're not the father," she had said just yesterday. Did that mean...? No. | refused to believe that Sebastian and Avery were together, and especially that they had had a child together.

Shoving the thoughts down, | continued moving toward her. "Do you seriously expect me to believe that you two are together?" | asked, stopping only a foot away. Avery slowly released her hold on Sebastian's tie, but didn't step away from him. Her hand rested on his chest, and she leaned into him, looking up at me. "Well, | would certainly hope so," she said with a cool laugh. " ---- Considering the fact that Sebastian and | even have a son together." 1 The world, which had been perpetually turning on its axis up until that point, suddenly came screeching to a halt.

Or maybe it was just my heart that stopped beating. | stared at Avery. At the point of contact between her hand and Sebastian's chest. At the way he smiled and wrapped his arm around her waist, drawing her closer. At the intimacy between them that | had never seen before. Ten years. For ten years, | had feared Avery was dead. | had spent an entire decade searching for answers, praying to whichever gods were listening that she might be out there somewhere, looking for me in the same way | was looking for her.

Just a couple of months ago, | had miraculously found out that my prayers had been answered. Or so | thought. But now | knew that it was all a cruel joke. Avery was alive. But while | had been grieving her for a decade, while | had been losing my mind searching for some sign of her, she had apparently started a new life. With Sebastian, of all people. ---- It would have been bad enough that they developed a relationship at some point during the past ten years. A decade was a long time, and it was only natural for a woman as beautiful as Avery to find a new lover. But to have a son together?

| furrowed my brow, thinking about Bjorn. He looked just like me, and we clearly had an affinity for one another. Furthermore, he was around the age of ten, the exact age that our child would have been, because Avery disappeared when she was pregnant. There was no way that Avery and Sebastian had been seeing each other when she was with me, right? Avery wouldn't do that to me. Sebastian was a nobody at that time, too. His name only popped up a few years ago. Unless... No. | still refused to believe it. The details simply didn't line up; Avery was lying.

For whatever reason, she would rather try to make me think that she had potentially cheated on me just to keep me away. Well, it wasn't going to work. | wouldn't let it. "You're lying," | said, tucking my chin. With a smooth motion, Avery pulled her left hand out of her pocket and held it up, splaying her fingers wide. ---- "Am |?" My chest caved in. There was a golden ring sitting on her finger, catching the sunlight streaming in through the tall windows. A wedding band, without a doubt. | opened my mouth to speak, although no words came. My wolf was howling, drowning out all other sound.

| could hardly breathe. | wanted to stubbornly think that she was lying, still, but now | wasn't so sure. Maybe Bjorn was my son, but she was telling the truth about her and Sebastian... That meant that this was more than a fling. It was serious.