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

This is all a lot newer for me than it is for you.

what she was worried about? That I

and fell into it, closing my eyes as I pinched the bridge of my nose. Exhaustion had started to make my head ache, matching the one in my

sit on my lap, and I had to

baby,” she said, running a hand along my

sighed. “Kylee, I think we should postpone our

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

ready for this,

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

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Her actions needed to be addressed. But

her face, and the fear and 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

a strength I couldn’t match at the

apparently, neither could Kylee.

my eyes from

whined. “I can’t lose you. I

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

I could do that.

palm against

I said. “We’ll keep the date for now. But we’re still going to talk

smile returned to her face. “Oh, Theo.” She climbed

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neck as she kissed my face. “Of course. I promise you won’t

a hand on her back.

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

no, I’m not leaving you tonight. I thought I was going to