The Luna’s Choice by Kat Silver

Chapter 28: Theo

“Briggs,” I ordered, “tell me you found her.”

He made a face. “I found her,” he said shortly. “She’s alive and she’s safe. We should leave it at that.”

I didn’t like what he was saying. There was something he didn‘ t want me to know, and now wasn’t the time to try my patience. Or Kieran’s. He was pacing in my head, ready to command Briggs to tell us everything he knew about Ayla.

“So she is in Sablemane territory?” I pushed. “Did you talk to her? Do you know where she’ll go next? A rogue won’t be able to stay in pack lands for long.”

“She will be safe.”

“How?” I wanted to know what he was keeping from me. “Did you talk to her?”

“Why does it matter, Theo?” Briggs asked calmly.

“Because it matters, Briggs.”

He sat there watching me for a few minutes, weighing his words carefully, which didn’t put me any more at ease. Finally, he sighed and started to talk.

“Ayla is with the Sablemane Pack. She was in a car accident in their territory and was taken to the closest hospital. Her injuries were pretty bad. She was in the hospital for four days.”

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So she definitely wasn’t healing. Dasha hadn’t returned to her.

“Theo, someone has taken an interest in her,” Briggs said.

My focus snapped to attention, my mind now only on my

mate.

“What do you mean ‘taken an interest?‘ Who?”

“She’s staying with Alpha Kingston. He made it clear to me that she is under his protection. She won’t be a rogue for much longer,” Briggs said.

“He’s bringing her into the pack?” I shot up from my seat. “Why the f*** does he care? Why is she staying with him?”

“I don’t know.”

does he have

share that with me,”

how do you know?” I

He wants her,” Briggs explained. “And he made sure I would give you

whole body was tense with the

just saying what I

did you talk to her? How do you know he’s not keeping her there against her will?” My

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myself,” Briggs said. “I met with her at his

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her. He actually saw her. “How did she look? Did she seem

confidently. “She was beat the hell up from the accident. But she was perfectly comfortable with her surroundings. She was

in Kingston? Did

was howling. I turned my back to Briggs as I clutched at my

it matter, Theo? What are you going to do? Drive her out of Sablemane because someone likes her? Are you really going to

me the bastard Briggs was saying it would. But I

way I see it, this wraps this whole mess up conveniently,” Briggs said. “You have enough to put her family at ease and she’s

want her,” I blurted out without thinking. I shook my head. “Kieran wants her. Between him and the mate bond, it’s hard to keep a part of me

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you just want her

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my hands through my hair. “Even if I did, it doesn’t change

is that, Theo?” Briggs asked, crossing his arms over his chest. “Because I have to say, the woman I met wasn’t the same person we’ve been

myself back in my

Kylee been living up to who you thought she was?” Briggs asked gently. “I heard she was MIA when everything was going

I said. “She’s young. She knows she made a

“Have you?”

or disappointment. It was genuine and full of concern and caring.

know anymore,” I

to talk

my hands over my face. This had turned into such a mess. And it hurt like

I felt ambushed,”

“When?”

I met Ayla,” I told him. “I was there with the woman I had just announced would be my chosen mate and Luna.

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