The Luna’s Choice by Kat Silver

Chapter 46: Theo

I went to the apartment after getting back to the packhouse to check on Ayla. Maggie had sent me a text that she had been a bit off throughout the day. She said it didn’t seem like anything serious, just that she wasn’t in the best of moods. I understood what she was talking about as soon as I got close to the suite. I could feel her anxiety through our connection.

I walked in to see her sitting at the dining table, chewing on a fingernail as she hunched over books and papers strewn across the surface. I rested my hands on her shoulders, kneading the tense muscles with my thumbs.

“What’s wrong, baby?” I asked as I kissed the top of her head.

She sighed. “I think I need to quit school.”

“What?” Now I was worried. I pulled the chair out beside and sat down, turning her to look at me. “Why would you think that, Ayla? You were so excited to go to college.”

“I don’t want to give it up entirely,” she said but there was still a sadness in her tone. “Just for this semester or this school year. I just feel like I can’t keep up. There’s so much going on. I’ve had to miss so much and we’re not even a month in.”

“Then we take some other things off your plate,” I said.

“Like what?” she asked sardonically. “Your mother is still doing a lot of the Luna duties, plus planning our solstice ceremony. I haven’t been working with her nearly as much as we had planned. I’d like to do more for Zeff and the magazine. I’m still having to translate Harry’s

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journal and figure out Dad’s books and research. Plus the Waar Pak investigation. Now the rogue attacks.”

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was sitting in front of her on the table and tossed it aside — “you can take a break from that. We have plenty of

doing could help

this much stress,” I interrupted. “We can handle the investigation and the Waar Pak and the border attacks

too much for you to do on your own,

my own,” I said. “I have a whole pack behind me. Just like you do. We have a good team, babe. We’ll be okay. Taking care

anyone who’s under the command,”

from there,” I stated. She still looked like she was on the verge of tears. “Babe, it’s okay. I swear, it’s perfectly fine for

want to be a good Luna and take care of my pack. I want

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want that more than you want to go to school, then?” I asked.

before shaking her head. “No,

you’re staying in.”

just don’t get it,” she huffed, turning away and resting her face in

her hands.

me, rubbing her back as I held her.

I said. “I want to understand.”

me. “I just feel overwhelmed, and I don’t know

I said. “You’ve taken on so much and so much has been

a book. I’ve handled a lot before. I don’t know

had to do that in the first place,” I said firmly. “You made it through then because losing your home and your family starving pushed you. There was no other option for you, Ayla.

feel like