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

newer for me than it is for you.

worried about? That I was mad at

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. Exhaustion had started to make my head

lap, and I had to fight the urge to push

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

we should postpone

my lap. “You don’t

you’re not ready

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

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

demeanor. The neutral expression on her face as she experienced the extreme

took a strength I couldn’t match at the

apparently, neither could Kylee.

my eyes

“I can’t lose you. I

to remember that Kylee was young. She was five years younger than me, and she was right that this role was new for her. There may not be much of it there now, but she had to have some of the same strength Ayla had. I just needed to

I could do that.

palm

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

smile returned to her face.

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neck as she kissed my face.

hand on her back. It was all

I said gently. “I’ll talk to you in the

not leaving you tonight. I thought I was going