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.”

her ground against the alpha energy I was exuding but taking another step toward me. “I don’t belong to anyone, remember? I have no mate.”

electricity shot through me,

“MINE.”

me off her

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“Fuck you.”

took a step toward her again

f***ing hurt

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care about your sister getting hurt,” I spat, but for some reason, I instantly regretted it. But I couldn’t

of her, her eyes turning an icy

ago. Putting your own life ahead of

to drain from her instantly, that blue fire fading

you just

ago. You disappeared all the time, leaving her

front of me,

said that?” her voice was almost a

nerve, a very deep one, and I wouldn’t stop. She had to break the bond. Once and for all.

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told me everything. She told me how you would keep things from her and your mother. That you would be out at all hours of the

“What?”

be with someone as cold and heartless

snapped up. Her eyes

figure

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

teeth as Kieran howled in my head, screaming for me not to accept

Arden, accept your rejection.” The pain in my chest amplified, but I could still feel the

wolf has to accept it,”

“Yours didn’t.”

“Didn’t she?” Ayla said.

she didn’t want to break

‘She didn’t. Still accepted.‘

wolves were primal creatures. They were animals, after all. They weren’t

Not without a very

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accept it,” Ayla said with a

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

almost unbearable.

“He won’t.”

him,” she

“I can’t.”

choice. I’ll never be with him, and neither will she,” Ayla

if he just accepted, but he wouldn’t give in. He was an Alpha. He was as strong as

Garner, cut my ties