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.”

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

it. My hand was around her neck and my mouth was on hers before I even knew what I had done. But I didn’t stop. I couldn’t stop. Sparks of intense electricity

“MINE.”

off her with

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“Fuck you.”

toward her again

hurt Kylee

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

radiated off of her, her eyes turning

a long time ago. Putting your own life ahead of hers while she

to drain from her

did you just

all the time, leaving her alone with a mother who was struggling to

went completely limp in front of me, stumbling

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. If it meant I had to break her

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your mother. That you would be out at all hours of the night when you were a teenager. How you dropped out of high school, waisting the tuition your parents worked so

“What?”

never be with someone as cold and heartless

snapped up. Her eyes a steely gray as

something I couldn’t figure out but would soon find

as my mate. I relinquish

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

The pain in my chest amplified, but I

has to accept it,”

“Yours didn’t.”

“Didn’t she?” Ayla said.

she didn’t want to break the

‘She didn’t. Still accepted.‘

was that possible? Our wolves were primal creatures. They were animals,

wanted. Not

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to accept it,” Ayla said with a crack

my jaw tightened to a point I thought my teeth would

almost unbearable.

“He won’t.”

him,” she forced

“I can’t.”

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

It was excruciating. 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 this.

cut my ties to