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.”

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

was 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 for me, my tongue seeking hers. Fuck, she tasted so good. She returned the kiss, her arousal mingling in

“MINE.”

off her with

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“Fuck you.”

step toward her

f***ing hurt

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

me?” Pure rage radiated off of her,

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

Every ounce of anger seemed to drain from her instantly, that blue fire fading from her

did you

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

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

you? She said that?” her voice was almost

insane in my head, telling me 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 bond.

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how you would keep things from her and your mother. That you would be out at all hours of the night when you were a

“What?”

could never be with someone as cold and

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

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

has to accept it,” she

“Yours didn’t.”

“Didn’t she?” Ayla said.

said she didn’t want to break the bond.

‘She didn’t. Still accepted.‘

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

they wanted. Not without

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it,” Ayla said with a crack

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 will

give in. He was 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

cut my ties to