The Perfect Luna by Marissa Gilbert

Chapter 44. Ash

Ash let out a heavy sigh and went all the way into the centre of the room, sitting in the exact chair where the mystery guest was sitting just a few seconds ago. He sniffed the air around him and his head snapped in Riannon’s direction. She simply nodded confirming his suspicions and then sat back into the opposite armchair.

“So?” she looked at him hopefully. It had to be something important if he decided to put away catching the intruder personally and stayed to talk to her instead.

“Do you remember how my mate died?” he asked, and she clenched her lips, giving him a

nod again.

“How can I forget?” Ria lifted her knees all the way to her chest and hugged them, (This novel will be daily updtaed at www.noveljar.com)“Chloe was one of my best friends at school.”

“I remember,” he smiled, “She used to call you and Maya her sisters.” “That’s what she was for me,” Riannon admitted, “Family.”

“After she died,” he gulped and looked at her, but meeting her gaze chose to look away and out of the open balcony door, “I was shattered. Broken…”

“I remember that too,” his Luna said quietly.

“She was my light,” he rested his head on the back of the chair, “My everything. And after her death, nothing mattered anymore. I was in the darkness. The darkness that nobody could understand. Nobody but you.”

He looked at her again and she nodded silently. Ash lost his mate a few years after she lost her siblings. She did know very well what he was going through. Although they said that losing a mate was worse than anything. But still, the experience was similar.

She remembered that after giving him some space to grieve, she saw that he was slipping away. And she remembered how she fought to make him stay and live the life he was

supposed to live. As the new Beta of their pack.

Brayden was angry at times because he couldn’t personally get any of this and had to commence his Alpha training alone, without his Beta. At some point, he even wanted to choose a different Beta, but Riannon talked him out of this. Luckily, back then her opinion mattered to him. He gave them time to “fix” his friend while he covered for him.

Slowly, day by day, Ash was getting stronger. He was never the cheerful guy they used to know back at school again, but he remained reliable and loyal, which was way more important.

But when a tragedy happened and her and Brayden’s parents were killed, Ash suddenly stepped in for the sake of them both. They could trust him in their hard time and he performed

Ria always thought that he found a new purpose in life when Brayden finally became the Alpha and named him his Beta. This was Ash’s turning point according to her.

told her and this time he pierced her with his hazel

would have wanted that,” she shrugged her shoulders, “I

before

her before she could finish that sentence,(This novel will be daily updtaed at www.noveljar.com) “This is

extent, but she chose not

locking his

me, I was only sorry that I didn’t get to meet you first. No offence, but Bray never saw you for who you were. He cared for your

met Chloe?” she tried to walk away from the

Riannon. And I knew that she would never come back. I fell into despair after her death, thinking that everything was over and there would be nothing good in my life ever again. This was when you

to say anything anymore. This was a new side of Ash she had no

you I betray my Chloe,” he smiled with sadness in his eyes, “She was gone and although I remembered our

She furrowed her brows.

“But that’s…”

exactly what happened to me. The more time I spent with you, the more my old feelings were coming back. Chloe was

to get out of

know that you didn’t see that coming. I tried to keep my distance

Ash saw a possibility for them to be together. What if that was why he always took Brayden’s side in the past?

to do whatever it takes. If you want to keep this façade of marriage

lips as they became too dry and his eyes lingered on them. Yet

done.

a new political marriage and marry some Alpha, I would follow you too. As your guard or whatever. Just let me be with you.” She stared at him and he did not blink

fully, of course. But in regards to him and

her hands out of his grasp, making him sigh from disappointment, “I can’t.

his eyes, trying to focus, “He is sha.gging his mate all over the

my dead brother. You don’t see me as a friend, but this is what I see you as. And for me, you are Chloe’s mate. I couldn’t do that even after her death. It’s

up and turned away,

honest with you. This would never happen. I need you in

I am to you?”

is the decision that you would have to make. Will you take my side as my friend and support

his Beta,”