The Perfect Luna by Marissa Gilbert

Chapter 30. The Night

bedside table for her cell and had to close his eyes as the thoughts of what he wanted to do

with her crowded his mind, driving out the rest of his rationality.

“Brayden?” he heard her surprised voice and his heart sunk as he sat on the bed,

watching her. Jealousy was not new to him anymore. Every time he thought of her husband, all

he wanted was to rip his head off and be done with it. Only that he had no right to. The Alpha hadn’t

offended him in any way, he played by the rules. If he killed him now, the uprising would have their

martyr to put on posters. Especially if he took his wife afterwards.

No, he had to do this right. Too many people depended on him.

And Riannon… He wasn’t sure that she would appreciate him doing things by force. Some she-wolves

were into this. But she didn’t look like the kind.

He had to repeat to himself again and again that her wolf would be back soon. (This will be daily

updtaed at www.jar.com)And then she would know. And even if the wolf wouldn’t return, he would

do whatever it took to get her

out of her marriage and make her fall in love with him.

Riannon was annoyed. It was 2 am at night and he had the audacity to call her. If he cared, he could do

that during the day. But he didn’t. He just threw a tantrum prior and that

was it.

“What are you doing?” he asked, sounding impatient. “I am sleeping,” she muttered, “What else could I

be doing at this hour?!”

“I…” He was not saying anything and then it suddenly occurred to her. Could he sense what she was

actually doing with Gideon right now? She bit her lip instinctively.

That was it.

“I missed you, Ri,” he said all of a sudden and she noticed how the lycan king’s eyes flashed gold.

(This will be daily updtaed at www.jar.com)Yet he hadn’t made a sound. He just sat there,

clenching his fists and watching

her every move.

“That’s very nice of you,” she replied calmly, “But I am tired, and I want to go back to

sleep. Can we talk tomorrow?”

“How are the lycans?” he ignored her words completely, “Do they treat you well?”

“Well enough. You have nothing to worry about.” Her response was dry and she could sense her

husband not being happy about it. “Anyway, I’ll tell you everything when I get back. Right now all I want

is sleep.”

“Not yet, Ri,” he growled at her, “I want to talk to my wife more.”

hurt herself again and blame it on someone else without any consequences?”

There was silence at the other end of the line, and she hoped that he would end the

conversation first. But, of course, he didn’t.

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“Ri, I understand that the situation is not easy. I promise I will handle it. Roxy will behave.

“Brayden assured her.

“Oh, Goddess,” she covered her eyes with her free hand, “How lucky!”

“RI,” he tried to appease her, “When you come back, we are going to take a few days off just for us.

(This will be daily updtaed at www.jar.com)It’s going to be great, and we will talk about

everything.”

“Sounds amazing,” she lied, “I am exhausted. I need to go now.”

“Ri,” he stopped her yet again,“Just… don’t do anything stupid there. And if anyone tries to force you

into anything, call me. I will always come to your rescue. No one will hurt my girl.”

Her lips parted in shock. What was in that man’s brain? It was like she never knew him in the first

place. Just this morning his precious mate tried to hurt her and he hadn’t been there for her.

“P’ll keep that in mind,” she sighed, ready to finally hang up.

“Ri, I really miss you,” he said in that husky voice of his he always used when he wanted to seduce her.

She used to go crazy about it. But now it had no effect on her. She was cured.

“Sweet dreams, Brayden!” she said firmly and swiped her finger to end the call, sighing.

Only now she remembered that the lycan king was watching her the whole time and she stayed like

that for a while, trying to gain back her composure.

Just when she was about to turn, a sound of a text message beeped, and she looked at her phone

again.

Ri, just remember that you are mine forever.

She stared at this message for a while before slowly putting the phone back. What was that right now?

In her past life he wasn’t that possessive of her since the moment he met Roxanne. And the text didn’t

have any sweet vibes to it. She did not like it. She did not like it at all.

A bad feeling stirred up in her chest. She was careless. He probably felt what she was

doing and it could go wrong in so many ways from here. Husbands had more power in this world. Her

best card was him not suspecting a thing. If she lost that surprise element… It could end badly for so

many people. Herself included.

abruptly, almost hitting his chest with her face when he caught her in his arms. And she

flinched…

It hurt him on a physical level to see this reaction after she just talked to her husband.

Did she still have feelings towards him? Or was it something else? The atmosphere in the room

changed.

“It’s fine,” he said caressing her cheek, “You can tell me. I…”

“We can’t do anything,” she bit her lips as she said it and it made him growl menacingly. He hated her

husband enough already before that moment. Now he absolutely despised him.

“Do you still love him?” he asked and she shook her head.

“No,” Riannon replied bluntly, “I don’t. But I need him to be unaware of that until I am free. Right now…”

“He felt how good you felt with me?” he chuckled, slightly relieved. (This will be daily updtaed at

www.jar.com)And when she nodded with a soft blush on her cheeks, he lifted her up and placed

her back to the bed.

She was about to protest when he hopped over her to the other half of the bed and lay

down there.

“What…” she was about to ask him what he was doing when she saw a smile on his face.

“If we can’t do anything, then we are going to sleep,” he said simply, “I am not leaving you alone,

though. He may feel me kissing you but he cannot sense me in the same room as you.”

“Alright,” she mumbled under her breath, secretly happy that he did not leave. She wanted

him close.

“And just so that you know, as soon as that divorce is finalised, I am taking you straight here,” the lycan

added, making blood rush to her cheeks.

They lay like this for a while.

“Did he hurt you?” Gideon found himself asking and the pause that followed seemed like a

torture.

“Not physically,” she let out a heavy sigh, “It’s hard to explain.”

“You said that you don’t love him anymore, but from what I know, he only brought his mate to your

week a few days ago. Is it that bad?” He did not know why he couldn’t shut up. The possibility of him

not liking her answer was huge.

“It’s complicated,” Riad admitted, “He turned out to be not what I thought he was. And as I already tried

to explain you before, it’s not only about me. There are other people that I need to

Something wasn’t adding up to him there. Why was she so sure that something would

happen to those people? According to his research about her, that Alpha and her were always

a good team and he was more or less fair to his subordinates.

“Why are you worried about your pack like that?” he decided to find that out.

“Because of the woman who would be the next Luna,” Riannon turned to look him in the eye, “She is

not a good person. And I am not saying that because I am offended by her. Just this morning…”

She suddenly stopped talking, but he placed his large palm onto her tiny hand and squeezed it.

“Just tell me what she did. What they did.” He hoped that she would be able to open up to

him a little bit. And when she sighed, he almost thought that she would ask him to leave.

But instead she told him what happened. And he was so angry that he wanted to burn that pack to the

ground the same night. He started asking her question and she told him everything that happened

since the day her husband brought that mate of his to their house. His blood

was boiling, his wolf demanded blood. And in his fury he was amazed how calm Riannon was talking

about all that. As is… as if it wasn’t the worst thing that happened to her.

He decided to find out everything there was to find out about that omega Roxanne. A part of him was

happy for her being Brayden’s mate, but no one could touch his and walk out unscathed. He was going

to deal with all this one way or another.

She fell asleep in the middle of their conversation and he allowed himself to brush her cheek briefly. He

scent coated him and just seeing her so close to him, sleeping peacefully,

made him happy.

Riannon woke up in the morning feeling refreshed and full of strength. A smile curled on her lips as she

turned to find Gideon next to her… only that the Lycan king was already gone.

She pushed the feeling of dissapointment to the far corner of her mind and went to take a

shower and clean up herself properly. She wanted to look good since she knew that she would be

meeting him soon again.

A maid brought her breakfast to her room and in about an hour after, Ria prepared all the

papers that she needed to discuss with the king. She went straight to his office and found him there

with Reid.

“Morning,” the both greeted her warmly and the Beta went for the exit, winking as he

passed her.

making it sound as if she was the Luna of his pack. But Riannon ignored that as her eyes met

with Gideons.

“Have a seat,” he politely motioned for her to take a chair in front of his desk and she did

just that.

“Thank you,” she smiled but he averted her gaze and it startled her. After what happened at night, this

wasn’t what she expected.

“Are those the files you prepared?” he stretched his hand and she handed him the folders.

He was looking through them thoroughly, asking questions and making some little amendments. And

absolutely avoiding looking at her.

She knew that she told him herself that they couldn’t… do anything. But was that it? He wasn’t

interested anymore?

She tried to call Onyx in the minutes that he was busy with reading to distract herself from gloomy

thoughts. But it again felt as if she wasn’t even there.

“So, all this looks good now,” he cleared his throat, “Well done. Now just work on the changes and we

can present this to other Alphas.”

Their eyes finally locked and she felt the urgent need to break the ice somehow.

However, his Gamma walked in with some important matters and Gideon looked at her apologetically.

“I’ll see you later at the party,” he gave her a weak smile and she stood up with her head

held high.

“As you wish, your majesty,” she said unemotionally and slowly walked out of the room.

Behind the door she stood for a moment, trying to understand what was happening and why she felt so

angry. So, they kissed yesterday. It wasn’t like they were betrothed now.

And yet she was fuming inside.

She did not meet anyone on her way upstairs as everyone seemed too busy with the party

preparations. She saw Savannah in the window of her room, but the princess seemed in the middle of

a heated argument with one of her helpers.

Riannon tried pacing around the room but it did not calm her nerves.

See you at the party, he said…

She went into the walk-in closet, where all the white dresses were still waiting for their

hour,