Chapter 35 – The Perfect Luna by Marissa Gilbert

Filed to story: The Perfect Luna by Marissa Gilbert

Whatever she was going to tell himi..

“I am hard to scare off, Riannon,” he gave her a soft smile. “Let’s hope so,” she gave him a nervous one.

And then, taking a very deep breath, she pronounced everything in one go as she was letting it out, “I already lived this part of my life. With Brayden and his mate Roxy in my pack. He never rejected her as he promised, and she took everything away from me. She killed the people I cared about, made Brayden reject and humiliate me, taking my title. And even then, after I already lost everything, she still killed me with the help of one of the wolves from my own pack. It was horrible. But then I somehow came back to the very moment it all started. Gideon, I literally opened my eyes when the door opened and the two of them walked in into our packhouse. This was when I lost Onyx. And since that day I had to live again during the most horrible days of my life. Only that I didn’t want for everything to repeat. I wanted to change what happened. And I started tweaking things one by one. Big and little. I changed them and they were changing the reality. Yet main events are still the same. For example, when I tried to fight Roxy joining the pack, I still lost. But when I called you earlier this life than

I did before it resulted in this… And then the Alpha Ball…”

She stopped when she noticed the frozen expression on his face. Did she overdo it? Was it too much for him? Should she have stopped after the rebirth part?

Gideon tried to process it. He thought that she was joking at first, but she was too serious and nervous about that. And now that he was thinking, it all made sense to him.

All right, not all. But some of the things did. Their very first conversation. She was already sure that bad things would happen.

And then her appearance at the ball. Her husband brought out his mate and mistress for everyone to see. Anyone would be crushed by that. But not Riannon.

She held her head so high exactly the opposite.

Not to mention the way she spoke to him. No one was that bold. Unless… they were on the brink of death and had nothing to lose.

“Gideon?” she called his name, biting her lip. He could see how worried she was about everything and wanted to tell him to forget about all that.

But in the next moment, he grabbed her and pulled her into the tightest of hugs.

He didn’t say anything, but she knew that he believed her. And it did not change anything for him.

“I am so sorry you had to go through this,” he said, kissing her hair as he couldn’t reach anything else from this position but didn’t want to let her go yet.

Slowly, she wrapped her arms around him too, embracing his warmth and his wonderful scent. Embracing the feeling of safety that he gave her. And for the first time ever she cried…

She rarely did. Almost never. But right now at this moment, she could finally afford to let it all out. The pain, the loneliness, the fight, all her raw emotions were out finally.

And it felt so much better.

Gideon was holding her in his arms as long as she needed, hurting together with her. Even Mars was howling inside feeling their mate’s pain.

She was done way faster than he expected. But his beautiful Luna never ceased to amaze him. She was perfect. His perfect Luna…

Riannon looked at him with puffy eyes, embarrassed by her little outburst.

“Now,” he said as he wiped the last tear away with his thumb, “Tell me everything from the very beginning.”

They spent the whole next day in his room. Only ordering food in and talking about everything. They talked so much but still, none of them felt like they were done. It seemed that there was always more. It started with the rebirth and then went on to their previous life. Then they were discussing their possible theories of what everything that had happened to her could mean. But later they started to simply plan what they would do next.

Ria knew well how to work in a team. She was doing it with Brayden for years.

But it was so different with Gideon. And not at all what she expected. They weren’t finishing each other’s sentences. He wasn’t agreeing with everything that she told him the way Brayden did.

The Lycan king had his own ideas. Often much bolder than hers. And much more violent.

the brown wolves in her pack. Something that she couldn’t agree with. So, the plan was changing and evolving, and they were both tired by the next night. Yet it felt so satisfying to do this with… an equal.

Because this was what they were. Equals. Partners.

They were finishing their dinner, still wearing nothing but sheets when someone knocked on the door.

“It’s Reid,” Gideon tolled her with an eye roll, “Give me a sec. I’ll get rid of him and then maybe… we could take a bath?”

“We already took a shower together, remember?” she teased him.

“I do,” a smirk stretched on his face as he winked at her. He opened the door but stood there, obstructing the Beta’s vision.

“So, this is how it is now?” Reid said in a fake spiteful tone, “You have secrets from me? After everything we’ve been through?”

“Ha-ha,” Gideon said emotionlessly, “You are welcome to come in, of course. But if you see something that you are not supposed to see, then I just have to kill you. Your choice.”

“Here is fine!” the Beta chuckled, but then added in a serious tone, “The report is ready. And you are not going to like it.”

“That bad, huh?” the king asked, taking the papers. He spent a few minutes reading and then Riannon heard a grunt.

“Shall I?” Reid asked bluntly.

“No, I think this is something I have to do personally,” Gideon cut him off, “You will look after Riannon. She is…”

“No need to explain it,” the Beta replied, “I get it. I will protect her with my life.”

She cleared her throat and came up closer to them.

“Excuse me,” she said calmly, “But while we are at it I want you both to remember that I still have my own obligations… to my old pack. I can take care of myself.”

“Ria,” her mate looked at her with a mixture of begging and warning.

“I will act on my own if I have to,” she insisted folding her arms on her chest.

“But you will use lycan protection at all times and let Reid know everything,” he said.

“Fine!” she had to agree. Not that lycan protection was a bad thing.

“Okey-dokey,” the Beta said awkwardly, “So… I think I am going to go for now…”

the door.

“You have to go,” she said. “I have to,” he admitted.

“For how long?” she asked as he removed the sheet that was covering her and lifted her up, entering her in one swift move. It already felt so natural to the two of them… Yet the crazy attraction wasn’t fading away.

“A day or two,” he grunted into her neck, showering her with kisses. “Do we really have time for this,” she panted, digging her nails into his back and shoulder.

“No,” he chuckled, speeding up his thrusts, “But I don’t care. If I am not going to see you for this long, I am going to make it a goodbye to remember…”

She came back into her room after he was gone. She even watched him leave through the window. Like some pathetic wife-wannabe…

She chose this room as the Alpha suit smelled of him too much. And she needed a clear head to think of everything.

Only after a quick shower, she go to check her phone, discovering that the battery was off. She put it on the charger and soon it was on again, showcasing to her all the missing calls from her husband… There were so many of them. She knew very well why.

And she didn’t want to deal with any of it. There were messages too. She did not open them so that he wouldn’t get the notification.

But then she saw one from Ash. And she couldn’t ignore that one.

“Maya is in big trouble,” was all that he texted her.

Brayden couldn’t sit still ever since he felt it. He felt it way too many times in the past 24 hours for it to be nothing. The soul-shattering sharp pain that started in his march and then was echoing through his whole body. Unfortunately, he knew exactly what he was experiencing, and he hated the thought alone of his wife being taken by someone else.

“Alpha,” Roxanne wrapped her arms around his neck leading from the back of his chair and brushed her fingers softly over the part of his chest that was exposed through his unbuttoned shirt, “You don’t look too well. If anything, you look like you are in pain. Maybe I can help you to get rid of it? A mate’s touch is healing for another mate. Let me help you. Let me ease your pain.”

He never thought that he would say it out loud but he had enough of bl.ow jobs and her suggestion wasn’t as appealing as she probably hoped. It was amazing to have a mate and he loved every minute of it. Someone ready for him any time, someone happy to receive just a speck of his attention,someone who was ready to drop to her knees at him simply implying it, someone who was ready to do everything to please him. She was HIS. He did not have to conquer her, he did not have to keep up with her. With his mate everything was easy. She felt his mood swings very well and knew when to back off. She was working around him, eager to please, ready for everything. Just the way it should be.

Yet his mind kept coming back to his wife since his mark was hurting him.

Riannon was with someone else and there was no denying it. Moreover, he was pretty sure that it was that as.shole, the Lycan king. The way he fought for her to come to his kingdom was way too obvious. And the worse thing was that there was nothing he could do about it now. It wasn’t like he could march into the lycans’ lair and demand his wife back. They were more powerful.

He couldn’t start a war with them. His pack would be wiped out quickly and no other alphas would support him in such an affair. They would probably even be happy to see his fall and try to claim his territories afterwards.

This wasn’t the way.

“Damn, Ri, what are you doing?!” he groaned as he texted her for one thousand’s time, not even expecting to receive a reply anymore.

It did not help that he knew that she was angry with him. For not rejecting Roxy.

Was she with the lycan king willingly now? Was it her little revenge on him?

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