The Perfect Luna novel Chapter 30

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.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.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.

“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.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.

“I’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.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.

“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