The Luna’s Choice by Kat Silver

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Chapter 5: Theo

“What the hell is going on?” Ayla’s voice floated down to me as she ran down the stairs. She froze halfway down the moment she laid eyes on me. “What are you doing here?”

A silk robe hung open, revealing the shorts and cut–off tank top she wore underneath, her caramel–colored hair flowing loosely around her shoulders. She was gorgeous. And clearly not in distress. I took a step toward her as my rage grew.

“What are you doing here?” I spat back.

“That’s none of your concern,” the male interjected.

I turned on him again, a rumbling growl emanating from my chest, my claws extending. I was ready to rip his throat out.

“Stop,” Ayla yelled, coming the rest of the way down the stairs and stepping between the two of us. “Zeff, go to work.”

“Absolutely not. I’m not leaving you here with him. Not in the state he’s in.”

“I would never hurt her.” Kieran was ready to burst from my skin. How dare this bastard think we would ever lay a hand on

her.

“We both know that’s a load of bullshit.”

“Zeff, you’re not helping. Shut the hell up and leave. Go to work,” Ayla insisted.

“Ayla…”

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“I said go.” Her expression softened a little. “I’ll call you later.”

The hell she would.

The Zeff guy shot me another hate–filled look before exiting

out the open front door. We stood in silence until the sound of his engine faded.

“Are you f***ing him?”

Her eyes went wide, then narrowed as she took a step forward. “Are you f***ing my sister?”

A strangled snarl escaped me, but she started speaking again before I could recover from her accusation.

“What I do with a male – or anyone for that matter – is none of your damn business.”

“The hell it isn’t.” Electricity passed through the air between us. “He has no right to put his hands on you.”

energy I was exuding but taking another step toward me. “I don’t belong to anyone, remember? I have no

of intense electricity shot through me, invigorating all my senses.

“MINE.”

me off her

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“Fuck you.”

a step toward her again but she

you f***ing hurt Kylee

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sister getting hurt,” I spat, but for some reason, I instantly regretted it.

of her,

your own life ahead

to drain from her instantly, that blue fire fading

you just

all the time, leaving her

went completely limp in front of me,

said

to shut up, to just stop talking. Urging me to stop hurting her. Because I was hurting her. I had struck a nerve, a very deep one, and I wouldn’t stop. She had to break the

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be out at all hours of the night when you were a teenager. How you

“What?”

could never be with someone as cold and heartless as

Her eyes a steely gray as

couldn’t figure out but would

reject you, Theo Arden, as my mate. I relinquish

howled in my head, screaming for me not to

but I could still feel the bond. “We’ve done this before.

to accept

“Yours didn’t.”

“Didn’t she?” Ayla said.

didn’t want to break the

‘She didn’t. Still accepted.‘

creatures. They were animals,

Not without a very good

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your wolf to accept it,” Ayla said with a crack

in my jaw tightened to a point I thought my teeth would shatter. The noise

almost unbearable.

“He won’t.”

him,” she forced

“I can’t.”

choice. I’ll never be with him, and neither will she,” Ayla said, tears threatening to fall from

I told him it would end if he just accepted, but he wouldn’t give in. He was an Alpha. He was as strong as me. I’d never overpower him on

Ayla Garner, cut my ties to Alpha