Avery’s POV
Six hours later found me standing in Gideon’s office staring at his fake-mate as she flounced out the door. Gideon had summoned me the minute I had awoken from my early morning slumber, and I had no choice but to heed his summons.
I didn’t have choices about a lot of things these days, it seemed.
My heart was already bruised and battered. My mother was missing. Some man titling himself the ‘Rogue King’ wanted to make me his baby-factory, and my new ‘husband’ had been smooching with his mate when I had entered.
Or, at least that was what it had looked like they had been doing. I had turned my head to the side immediately, flushing a bright, embarrassed red.
The haughty and smug look Dierdra had shot me as she left had been nauseating, and so had been the way Gideon had
