The Luna’s Choice by Kat Silver

Chapter 63: Ayla

Mina and I were leaving the cellar when we ran into Briggs.

“Luna, I need a favor,” he said, “and possibly your help.”

“What’s up?”

“We need to get to the bottom of your father’s research,” he said. “There has to be something in there that can tell us more about what is going on. The others have this handled.”

I nodded. “Okay,” I said. “Let’s go.”

“I have an errand to run,” Mina said. “I want to stop by the lạb and check in on a couple projects.

Mine gave me a hug and Briggs a kiss before heading in the direction of her car. Briggs and I returned to my suite and hauled the trunk out of my bedroom. We pulled everything out and organized it through the living room.

“These are the books that I’ve already been through,” I said. “They’re all about my family or Onyxcrown history of the past two hundred years or so. But I didn’t find anything that appeared to connect with the Greytooth Pack.”

“We may need to go back farther,” he replied, picking up one of the file folders. “Let’s just dig in and see what we find.”

“Maybe we should call Professor Armand over?”

Briggs nodded. “I wouldn’t say no to the extra eyes.”

I sent the professor a message and he said he would be over in a few hours. I got each of us a drink and some snacks and settled in for a long session.

back,” Briggs said cautiously. “He wants to see

he know what’s in

we came to rescue you. Something dangerous. I’ll let him tell you about that. It should come from

why you want to focus

He nodded.

Theo sent you to distract me,” I replied wryly. “But I think you may be right. I’ve been wondering why my father was so sure Theo and I were mates. At first, I just thought it was hopeful thinking. He always

hopefully, that reason is in

over everything. Professor Armand joined us in the afternoon. He was so excited about some of the texts that it didn’t take long before he was completely immersed in the work. As enthusiastic as he was,

learn more about my family, we hadn’t found anything useful.

since I did actually write the book on ancient pack architecture. This cellar sounds like it’s right up

said. “I’m sorry we didn’t think of it. I won’t

you have any pictures of what this mysterious door looks like? You said there were some symbols on it, perhaps

through. “We snapped some pictures while

phone to Armand who proceeded to examine

bit worn,” he said as he grabbed a

as he felt necessary. When he came to a stopping point he looked over his

until he found

taking the book of folklore from his hands. “He read it to me as a kid. I just kind of put some of those keepsakes

all

there may be a reason he picked that particular book,” Professor Armand said, flipping

shift into wolves. Two families were the leaders of a village that was plagued by attacks from neighboring forces. To save their people, they plead to the moon goddess to save them.