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

lot newer for me than it is for you.

she was worried about?

into it, closing my eyes as I pinched the bridge of my

felt Kylee come and sit on my lap, and I

said, running

think we should postpone our mating

gasped, jumping off my lap. “You don’t mean that. Because I

ready

promise I’ll do better, Theo. Please, I love you. Don’t

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it was necessary. Her actions needed to be addressed. But her reaction to the confrontation was a bit pathetic. It wasn’t the show of strength and conviction and humility that

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, the severing of her pack, and the loss of her wolf all at once. The only evidence of her turmoil was the tears

couldn’t

apparently, neither could Kylee.

my eyes

can’t lose you.

me, and she was right that this role was new for her. There may not be much of it there now,

I could do that.

a palm against

the date for now. But we’re still going to talk about this

to her face. “Oh,

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

hand on her back. It was all I could

I said gently. “I’ll

I’m not leaving you tonight. I thought I was