The Luna’s Choice by Kat Silver

Chapter 26: Theo

It was after midnight when I could finally head to my room. I soon as I opened the door, I smelled her. I immediately wished I could just close the door and leave without her noticing, but that wasn’t going to happen.

“What are you doing here, Kylee?” I asked. I didn’t even have the energy to sound angry, but I still was.

“You left me there,” Kylee cried angrily.

“Excuse me?” My energy returned, fueling my anger.

“You just left me at the hospital. I went all the way there to make sure you were okay after being worried sick, and you just left me there.”

“Had you been at the library in the first place, you wouldn’t have had to worry about me,” I bellowed. “You should have been there by my side. It was our pack that was suffering. They needed to see their Alpha and their Luna there. But you couldn’t be bothered.”

“Theo…”

“When you did decide to show up, I just had to console a friend who had just lost her mother because I hadn’t made it to her in time. We lost a pack member, a good woman, and you’re mad because you had to find your own way home?

How ignorant can you be?”

Kylee threw herself against me, wrapping her arms around my waist

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“You’re right, Theo. You’re right,” she cried. “I understand I should have been there as the pack’s Luna. It was a mistake. I‘ m sorry.”

I didn’t move to return the embrace. Her behavior was

unacceptable.

“Please, baby,” she sniffled. “It was a mistake. I’m still learning

be a Luna. This is all a lot newer for me than it is for you. I promise

she was worried about? That I

them from around me and pushing her away slowly. I went to my armchair and fell into it, closing my eyes as I pinched the bridge of my nose.

lap, and I had to

really sorry, baby,” she said, running a hand along

“Kylee, I think we should postpone

jumping off my lap. “You

ready for this,

to the floor before me. “But I will be. I promise I’ll do better, Theo. Please, I love

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disgusted me. Part of me hated that I was upsetting her, but I also knew it was necessary. Her actions needed to be addressed. But her reaction to the confrontation

pain were clearly etched across her face. Ayla flashed into my head. I remembered the steely resolve in her demeanor. The neutral expression on her face as she experienced the extreme pain of the broken mate bond,

strength I couldn’t

apparently, neither could Kylee.

tore my

Kylee whined. “I can’t lose you.

for her. There may not be much of it there now, but she had to have some of the same strength Ayla had. I

I could do that.

a palm

the date for now. But

her face.

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around my neck as she kissed my face. “Of course. I

a hand on her back. It was all I

I said gently. “I’ll

not leaving you tonight. I thought I was