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.”

if 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, remember? I have no

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.”

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“Fuck you.”

a step toward her again but

f***ing hurt

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

off of her, her eyes turning

your own life ahead of hers

to drain from her instantly, that blue fire fading

did you

to Kylee years ago. You disappeared all the time, leaving her alone with

completely limp in front of me, stumbling until her back hit the

what she told you? She said

a nerve, a very deep one, and I wouldn’t stop.

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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

“What?”

someone as cold and

Her eyes

I couldn’t figure out but would soon find

Theo Arden, as my mate.

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

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

wolf has to accept it,” she

“Yours didn’t.”

“Didn’t she?” Ayla said.

said she didn’t want

‘She didn’t. Still accepted.‘

were primal creatures. They were animals, after

wanted. Not

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accept it,” Ayla said with a crack

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

almost unbearable.

“He won’t.”

she forced

“I can’t.”

choice. I’ll never be with him, and neither will she,” Ayla said, tears threatening to fall from her

he felt. 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. Ayla must have sensed my stalemate. Or her wolf did and told her

my ties to Alpha