The Heartless Alpha’s Beloved Luna (Avery and Gideon) novel Chapter 499

Avery’s POV

I ducked into one of the side rooms off the banquet hall and shut the door behind me. The noise from the preparations immediately became muffled, or maybe it was just the sound of my racing heart that was blotting everything else out.

I took a deep breath and pressed the phone to my ear. “Hello?”

“Avery.” It was one of my lead shareholders. “Nice of you to answer.”

“How did you get my personal number?” I asked.

“Your assistant kindly gave it to us once she got sick of us calling the main office,” another voice, one of the other shareholders, responded.

I pinched the bridge of my nose. “We just spoke a few days ago.”

“Yes, and we made it very clear that we expected an answer as soon as possible,” a third voice replied.

“Word has it that you made another move in the packs instead of back to the city, where you belong,” the first one added.

“Where I belong is my business,” I blurted out, then exhaled, steadying myself before I let it get too heated. “Listen, my son is very sick. He needs to be in the packs right now, and I need to be with him. I won’t be coming back to the city at the moment.”

There was a pause before one voice replied, “I thought you werewolves were all about community. Surely there’s someone else who can care for the child.”

“I am his mother,” I hissed.

I heard the sound of murmuring on the other end as the men spoke to each other in hushed tones. They all sounded so similar that I couldn’t even tell who was who, and I didn’t care to find out. “Well, then I suppose we’ll have no choice but to pull out of our arrangement.”

I bit the inside of my cheek.

“You’re really going to do this,” I said. “You’re going to try to make a mother choose between her business and her baby.”

“Every businessman worth his salt would say that his business is his baby.”

I couldn’t help it. I laughed out loud at that.

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