The Heartless Alpha’s Beloved Luna
Avery and Dierdra both had departed my company in their own bitter ways, and perhaps an earlier version of me would have welcomed the lack of distraction, but I had gotten accustomed to their company, and now I felt strangely bereft.
Avery’s words kept ringing in my ears. She had flung them at me as effectively as a bucket of ice water, and they washed over me repeatedly in the hours since, chilling me to the bone.
“I never wanted to be your Luna.”
She confused me, baffled me utterly. Here she had been handed the world, and it still wasn’t good enough. I couldn’t fathom what more she wanted from me, from our relationship. For someone who had seemed so simple, she was proving devastatingly co