Gideon’s POV
Honestly, I hadn’t expected Avery to be right.
It wasn’t that I didn’t trust her.
It was more that I didn’t trust anyone.
Before the luncheon, when Avery had given me the warning about Dierdra’s instability, I had chalked it up to something more subtle. Dierdra being upset at our new working situation, for example. I had thought she was trying to tell me that I might need to work to keep things in balance, or Dierdra would act out and destabilize the new equilibrium that we had forged.
It never crossed my mind to doubt that she was truly pregnant. If I hadn’t been able to scent the pup she carried, I chalked it up to our relationship being somewhat unconventional and stifled. After all, I had trouble feeling the mate bond with Dierdra as well, but she had been a rogue
