The Luna’s Choice by Kat Silver

Chapter 128: Ayla

A huge rumble echoed through the room, bouncing off the high ceilings, making the walls shake. Harry stopped what he was doing and looked toward the sound. His shoulders instantly became tense and his face contorted into a curious scowl.

“Bare with me, my love,” he said absently to me. “We may have a visitor.”

My heart skipped.

Theo

“Don’t get your hopes up,” Harry snapped. “There’s no way he could have found you. It’s probably some rogue poking around where they shouldn’t be.”

He disappeared into the darkness, the sound of the door closing the only indication he was gone. I waited a moment before pulling at the ring again, trying to work it out of the wood.

“Ayla,” Kylee said to me. “I’m sorry.”

I sighed. I wasn’t in the mood to deal with her apologies. It’s not like they meant anything anyway.

I closed my eyes, pushing passed the headache that had formed.

That was harsh.

And even though she deserved it, I didn’t. I couldn’t carry that pain with me from here.

If we got out of here.

well have faced it then.

what?” I asked snarkily. “For telling everyone you know I’m a horrible, selfish person or

your fated mate,” she

trying to steal someone’s fated mate. Because you sure as hell knew he wasn’t yours. Are you

I’m sorry for everything,” she said. “I really did

snapped. “You’re really going to go down that road? Tell me how much you love the one person who was supposed to be mine? Like I’m supposed just let you have him. News flash, Kylee, I already did that, and look what that got me. When you found out who Theo was to

keep you fed and a roof over your head. I kept you from seeing Ma passed out drunk in a pile of her own sick. I made sure you never knew how many times we were almost taken by

let them touch you. Oh, but me? Me, she wouldn’t have put up much

true,” I heard my mother say weakly. She sat herself up slowly. “How could you believe that,

You kept leading those assholes right

Kylee whispered in

back against the post, giving my

it would never get that far,” Ma said.

could you have known that,

that. Kylee needed me more. Your father always made

some bullshit story about me being different and you thought that meant I could

“But you did…”

bellowed, yanking at my bonds in anger. “But I did. Because you were still my mother. And because I needed to make sure Kylee was taken care of. You both took everything from me. And it was okay because one day, I’d find my mate, and he’d see me for who I was and… Oh, wait… you tried to take that too.”

wood splintering along my back, the coarse rope digging into my flesh. Anything but the two

head. I nearly sobbed.

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