Gideon’s POV
I sipped my coffee in the pack hall late that night and waited for Tegan’s report on my missing Luna. Even this late, there were always wolves coming and going on pack business. I was surrounded by bustle and yet it couldn’t match the turmoil I felt inside.
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 wo
