The Heartless Alpha’s Beloved Luna (Avery and Gideon) novel Chapter 379

Chapter 379

I stopped walking and turned to look at him. “How much I’ve grown,” I repeated. I couldn’t decide if he was being genuine or condescending, but my instinct was leaning toward the latter.

Gideon nodded. “When you were… I mean… When we were…” His voice trailed off, and he rubbed the back of his neck. “Back then, you didn’t seem to have much of an interest in business. Now, you’re running your own.”

I stared at him for a moment, trying to decipher what he was really saying. Was he actually impressed, or was he trying to imply that a part of him missed the way I was before? Back when I was his meek and mild-mannered Luna, whose main purpose in life was to get married and have pups? 2

My wolf snarled softly at the thought.

“He’s not like that,” she said. “You know it.”

My jaw tightened as the image of the other night in the bar filtered back into my mind. Tall and dark figure, strong arms. Gideon’s concerned face.

I sighed, realizing that my wolf was right. I was being defensive.

“Thank you,” I said. “But ten years have passed. People change.” 1

I let that final statement hang between us, hoping he would get the hint; I wasn’t just talking about business. I was talking about

He seemed to get it, if the way his eyes darkened slightly was any indication.

Just then, Fiona walked up to Gideon, grabbing his arm in that way that made him stiffen. I noticed it, but once again, I pushed it away. Circus and monkeys and all that. (1)

Fiona looked at me and tilted her head. “Hm. Ten years outside of the packs, huh?” she asked. “I guess time flies.”

“I guess so.”

Fiona smiled and looked up at Gideon, then at me again. There was something sharp in her eyes. That calculating look she always had, subtle but unmistakably there, whenever she was thinking of her next move.

“I guess living in the human lands changed you a lot. I mean, you’re basically a human now; you dress like them, you talk like human women… Not that I’m saying it’s a bad thing, of course, it’s just… Well, ten years is a very long time.” Her hand tightened around his arm, wrinkling the fabric of his suit jacket. “Long enough to basically make you an entirely different person. On the inside and outside.”

I blinked at Fiona as silence fell between us. I wasn’t stupid-she was calling me old, and she thought I was so set in the human ways that I wouldn’t see it.

She was also saying that I didn’t belong here. Amongst my own kind. Like ten measly years was enough to take away my wolt.

Well, she was wrong. My wolf was alive and well, and wiser than she could ever be, and I wasn’t about to let a child speak to me like that. 2

Righteous indignation bubbled up in me, no matter how much I tried to suppress it. It was the same as the night at the lounge when she mentioned a “divorce”-who did she think she was, speaking to me like that? After everything I had been through, after everything I had accomplished, I didn’t need to put up with this bullshit.

I knew I probably should have stayed quiet so as not to rock the boat, but it was too late. The words came out with no filter.

“Well, you were only eight years old when I left the packs, and you’re barely older than that now, so maybe you really have very little clue about how the passage of time changes people.”

Fiona stiffened. Even Gideon froze.

Chapter 379

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