The Heartless Alpha’s Beloved Luna (Avery and Gideon) novel Chapter 436

Chapter 436

Gideon’s POV

Fiona lifted her head and looked between all of us.

“I want to speak to Gideon alone.”

“That’s not really how this works,” Sebastian said. “You’re in my custody. You talk to whoever I say you can talk to.”

“That’s my condition if you want me to talk at all.” Fiona glanced at Avery, then at me again. “Alone. Or I won’t say a word.”

I looked at Avery. She was glaring at Fiona with a flat, assessing gleam in her eyes, like she was trying to pierce through Fiona’s skin. Fiona looked back steadily and remained quiet.

Finally, Avery stepped back, touched Sebastian’s arm and nodded her head toward the door. His jaw

clenched, but he followed her out.

Once they were gone, I pulled the chair from the corner of the cell, turned it around, and sat down with my arms crossed over the back of it. Fiona watched me do all of this without moving from her perfectly arranged position. I imagined that she’d already spent a good amount of time perfecting the pose, wanting to appear completely composed despite being terrified inside.

“Well,” I said. “I’m listening.”

She looked at me for a long moment. Up close, in the daylight coming through the small window near the ceiling, she looked younger than she ever had. It made my throat tighten a little with guilt for ever pulling her into any of this mess.

“I want a deal,” she said, lifting her chin.

“You’re not really in a position to be making demands.”

“I know where Deirdre is hiding,” she said.

My stomach bottomed out.

“And I’ll tell you everything, all of it,” she went on, “if you promise not to send me to the pack prison. I’ll accept whatever other punishment you see fit. But not prison.”

I studied her. She wasn’t bluffing; I could tell that much. Whatever information she allegedly had on Deirdre, she genuinely believed it was worth bargaining with. Maybe that meant it was worth hearing her

out.

“Wait here,” I said.

I found Sebastian and Avery a little ways down the corridor. Avery had her arms crossed and her back against the wall, staring at her feet. Sebastian straightened when he saw me coming.

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“She wants a deal,” I said. “Full confession in exchange for no prison time.”

Sebastian considered that. “What’s your read on her?”

“She’s scared, which seems to be making her honest for once.” I glanced back toward the cell. “She says she knows where Deirdre is hiding, but she won’t tell me without this promise.”

Sebastian was quiet for a moment. “Ultimately,” he said, “it’s up to you. You were the one who was drugged last night.”

I looked at Avery, but she was still staring at the floor, clearly lost in thought.

With a curt nod, I went back into the cell. Fiona was picking at her nails, but quickly hid the evidence when I entered.

“Okay. No prison,” I said, sitting back down. “That’s the deal. But I want everything. Don’t leave anything

out.”

She exhaled slowly, then started to talk.

She told me about “Katya”. How the woman had shown up in front of Matthew, offering her “services”. How she’d inserted herself into Fiona’s plans with the ease of someone who really seemed to know exactly what needed to be done.

She told me how this “Katya” convinced her to create a powerful aphrodisiac to be slipped into my drink last night. How she was supposed to use it to seduce me and get me to mark her, forever binding us to

one another.

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