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.”

I want him to,” she yelled, not only holding her ground against the alpha energy I was exuding but taking another step toward me. “I don’t belong to anyone,

on hers before I even knew what I had done. But I didn’t stop. I couldn’t stop. Sparks of intense electricity shot through me, invigorating all my senses. I pushed her to open

“MINE.”

me off her with

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“Fuck you.”

toward her again but she backed

hurt Kylee

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

me?” Pure rage radiated off of her, her eyes turning an icy

time ago. Putting your own life

drain from her instantly, that blue fire fading

you

sister to Kylee years ago. You disappeared all the time,

completely changed. She almost went completely limp in front of me, stumbling until her back hit

you? She said that?” her voice was almost a

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

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and your mother. That you would be out at all hours of the night when you were a teenager. How you dropped out of

“What?”

someone as cold and

up. Her eyes a steely gray as

something I couldn’t figure out but would soon

mate. I relinquish my

teeth as Kieran howled in my head, screaming for

my chest amplified, but I could still feel the bond. “We’ve done this before. It’s

wolf has to accept it,”

“Yours didn’t.”

“Didn’t she?” Ayla said.

didn’t want to break the

‘She didn’t. Still accepted.‘

They were animals, after all. They weren’t

Not without a very

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your wolf to accept it,” Ayla

a point I thought my teeth would shatter. The noise in my head from

almost unbearable.

“He won’t.”

she forced

“I can’t.”

a choice. I’ll never be with him, and neither

strong as me. I’d never overpower him on this. Ayla must have sensed my stalemate. Or her wolf

Ayla Garner, cut my