The Heartless Alpha’s Beloved Luna (Avery and Gideon) novel Chapter 184

Chapter 184

Avery’s POV

The sun was setting on another day of hard work. I stretched wearily, feeling my shirt draw tight over chafed skin. My shoulders and back ached from bending low over my tasks. I walked over to my water bottle and chugged it, grateful for the cool water.

I was eager to collapse into my bed. To go unconscious for a few hours, and then repeat it all the next day. These endless days had stretched into endless weeks, and I had found the pattern of survival. Eat, sleep, work, repeat.

It was mindless, endless punishment. Was this how my mother had felt, most of her life, I wondered? She, too, had been relegated to the rank of omega slave, and had worked her entire life for the dubious honor of remaining in the pack where her daughter lived.

Was I merely walking in her footsteps?

I grimaced at the sky, the edges of my mouth curling back as I tried to will the fatigue to leave my body.

“It’s good to see you smiling,” came a familiar voice from behind me. I turned, stiffly, to see Gideon watching me from the path a few feet away.

It hadn’t been a smile, it had been a rictus of pain, but he was far and had misread my expression. No doubt, we had become little more than strangers to each other. It had been weeks since we had last

talked.

“Alpha,” 1 licked my dry lips, nodded. It was all he would get from me for now.

We eyed each other warily. I wondered what bad news he had come to deliver this time? Perhaps we were finally getting divorced? Or maybe I would be exiled.

Truly, anything was better than these endless days of toil.

Though, as I rolled my stiff shoulders, I noted that I was getting stronger. I could once more feel the comforting presence of my wolf lurking in the back of my mind. I took her presence as a positive sign that I was finally starting to recover.

For a while I had been terrified that not only was my body irrevocably broken, but also that my wolf had retreated far within me, never to re–emerge. She had told me to get stronger, and instead I had been grievously injured.

Gideon continued to stare, observing me as I gathered up my jacket and water, the remains of my lunch pail. When I went to walk down the path towards my apartment, and a welcome shower, he shook his head.

“Come to the pack house, I have something to discuss.”

I stared longingly towards my home in the village. I didn’t want to head up the hill to the pack house. My legs were tired, and I didn’t have any interest in seeing her, Dierdra. She was a vengeful wraith that

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haunted that house.

Nonetheless, I obediently trailed Gideon up the hill, into the pack house, up the stairs, and into his office. Once inside, I hovered awkwardly.

I was sweaty and covered in dirt. If I sat, I would stain the chair in Gideon’s office. He didn’t seem to note

discomfort, however, and sat in his chair on the other side of the desk.

my

“I am preparing to attend the Alpha Council,” he said, running a hand through his hair. I noticed he had started wearing it longer, and wondered if that was Dierdra’s preference.

“The same Alpha Council as the ball we attended?” I wondered. Gideon nodded.

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