The Luna’s Choice by Kat Silver

Chapter 29: Kingston

It had been two weeks since I brought Ayla home from the hospital. I continued to sleep in the bed with her after the first night she asked. I wasn’t about to turn down the opportunity to be so close to her. I understood that it was because I had some kind of effect on the pain caused by her broken mate bond, but I even saw that as a good sign.

I was more careful about how far I took things. I wanted her to come to me when she was sure she was ready. There were still a few stolen kisses here and there between us, each one better than the last, but we both made sure to stop things before they went any farther than that.

But it was getting harder.

I pulled into the parking deck of the hospital. Ayla had been feeling a lot better. Her head wound and ribs seemed to heal quicker than expected, so I pushed her follow–up forward to today. They would do some x–rays and see if there was any progress with her broken leg.

I led her through the halls to the doctor’s office, where we were immediately sent to the radiology department to complete the X–rays. The process went quickly – one of the perks of being the Alpha – and we were heading back to see the doctor.

We figured it would still take some time before they had the results for us, but they were kind enough to put us in a private room to wait.

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“So, have you thought more about what you want to do as far as a job goes?” I asked as I ran my thumb along the back of her hand that I was holding.

She shrugged. “I still keep coming back to either going back to school or getting into publishing. Maybe even both. Goddess knows I’m used to keeping busy.”

“And you’re sure you don’t want to just keep writing? I’m sure finding you a new publisher wouldn’t be hard.”

“Yeah, I think I want to take a break from novels for now,” she said. “I still love writing. But that still feels so much like my old life. After everything that’s happened, I’m not sure I have the inspiration I used to. I’ll go back to it one day. Just not right now.”

“Okay,” I said with a smile. That made my plans for after the appointment more exciting. I was hoping she didn’t notice that I was about to come out of my skin with excitement.

There was a knock, and the doctor finally walked through the door.

he said politely. “It’s lovely to see

“I have been feeling

an examination, then we’ll go over the results of

her bruising daily and knew they had all cleared up

ones around her ribs. The stitches in

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a small

had been.

Ms. Garner, you appear to

have your wolf to heal you,” the doctor said. “In fact, you’re still healing rather quickly. Including” – he rolled his chair across the floor and pulled out the X–ray images, clipping them to the lightboard on the wall – “your leg. We had to put a small plate in to restore the bone. In a human, we would still expect to see space along the break line. But

what do you think is causing that? I still don’t have my wolf. I haven’t

that could mean you can still access her residual healing ability,” the doctor explained. “Even shifters whose animals stay dormant from the start still heal faster than the average human. Not

Dasha may still be watching out for

corners of her mouth twitched with a

remove the cast today and

don’t need the crutches any more?” Ayla

may want to continue to use them for today while you adjust,”

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they removed her cast and fitted her

doing so well. When we finally got back to the SUV, I was

asked as

what?” she asked,

a surprise for you,” I said with a

out and headed straight for an office building on the other side of town. I

this place?” Ayla