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

a horrible, selfish person or

didn’t know he was your fated

fated mate. Because you sure as hell knew

said. “I really

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 me, you didn’t regret what happened. No, you slapped me in the face.

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

so much that one. Seeing as Ma never would have let them touch you. Oh, but me? Me, she wouldn’t have put up much of a fight for.”

sat herself up slowly. “How

those assholes right to our doorstep. And you kept making ME talk them out of it. Face it, Ma, I was your

Kylee whispered in shame.

post, giving my fingers a rest.

get that far,” Ma said. “I knew you

known that, Ma?” I yelled.

Ma explained. “You know that. Kylee needed me more. Your father always

meant I could take on fully grown werewolves with no

“But you did…”

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

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

my dad flashed through my head. I nearly

came back.

was a