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.”

not only holding her ground against the alpha energy I

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

“MINE.”

me off her

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“Fuck you.”

a step toward her again but

you f***ing hurt Kylee like

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

off of her, her

abandoned Kylee a long time ago. Putting your own

ounce of anger seemed to drain from her

did you just

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

of me,

She said that?”

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 bond. Once and

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

“What?”

someone as cold

eyes a

herself to something I couldn’t figure out but would

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

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

your rejection.” The pain in my chest amplified, but I could still feel the bond. “We’ve done this before. It’s not

to accept it,” she

“Yours didn’t.”

“Didn’t she?” Ayla said.

didn’t want to break the bond.

‘She didn’t. Still accepted.‘

primal creatures. They were animals,

what they wanted. Not without a very

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reason.

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accept it,” Ayla said with a crack in

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

almost unbearable.

“He won’t.”

him,” she

“I can’t.”

and neither will she,” Ayla said, tears threatening to fall

an Alpha. He was as strong as me. I’d never overpower him on this. Ayla must have sensed my stalemate. Or her wolf did and told her because she

my