The Luna’s Choice by Kat Silver

Chapter 53: Ayla

It had been three weeks since I had stepped back from the Waar Pak investigation. It had been hard at first. I kept feeling like I was being left out, which would manifest in mood

swings. Theo would update me on anything I needed to know, which helped some. He still hadn’t been able to get much out of Lloyd, but we weren’t surprised that the process would take a while.

Eventually, I settled into a normal routine that kept me busy enough that I could keep my mind off of the things I wasn’t doing. I was still working on my dad’s research with Professor Armand, but other than that, I hadn’t touched Harry’s journal or anything else. I was fi Recharge successful! with school and really starting to enjoy my classes. I was even making more friends on campus.

However, there was one thing that had been off.

I was still getting sick.

Ever since that night with Lloyd, I had been nauseous frequently. At first, it wasn’t that bad, and I chalked it up to stress and knowing he was still there. I had started using some herbal remedies that had helped for the most part, but for the past couple of days, it had gotten worse.

“Okay, Ayla,” Maggie said from outside the stall door as I hung my head over the toilet. “It’s time to face it.”

“I know. I know,” I groaned, flushing the contents of my stomach down the drain.

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I left the stall and rinsed my mouth at the sink while Maggie offered me a cool, damp paper towel for my face.

“We’ll stop by the pharmacy on the way back,” she said. “When is Alpha done today?”

“He said he wouldn’t be back until late,” I said, sounding more bitter than I had meant.

He hadn’t been working late a lot, but he always seemed to have bad timing when he did. With me being sick, Dasha had been in a weird mood that had us both feeling unusually clingy. So, when Theo wasn’t close by, I would get annoyed, especially since he had been evasive about where he had been going. He said he was working on a project with the company from the office in the city while Harmon was still in town. But whenever I asked, I could feel something through our bond. It made me feel like he was hiding something.

didn’t like it.

Maggie said, hooking her arm in mine. “It’s time to

drive because my stomach was still queasy. We had made our pit stop and were back home in my suite in less than an hour. I immediately flopped down on the couch, trying to

she dropped the paper

and pulled out the box with the pregnancy test. I looked

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why I had been avoiding this. Maybe because I didn’t

knew how I

would be as a father. He had been taking care of me so well. And I knew how much having kids meant to him. Not to mention what it would mean

anxiety there

still very real. It felt like I constantly had a target on my back. It felt irresponsible to have a pup while that kind

getting pregnant on your first heat after a mating wasn’t guaranteed, but it was pretty damn common. If I wasn’t, then what if that meant something was wrong? I had been taking wolfsbane for over a week when I went into heat. What if that did something to

do was take the test, get the results, and go from there.

I carried it back out to the living room without even looking at

1. it.

few minutes before it’s ready,” I said

the test stick on the coffee table

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I did so. Dasha was practically giggling

me anything,‘ I

sure,‘ she replied.

had a feeling that wasn’t true. Ever since Maggie had suggested I could be pregnant a week ago, she had been acting smug whenever I asked her what she felt. Even though she