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.

coming back,” Briggs said cautiously. “He wants to see what’s in the vault

he know what’s in there?”

“He went looking for something in the Onyxcrown tunnels when we came to rescue you. Something dangerous. I’ll let him tell you about that. It should come from him. But he does believe that whatever may be in our vault is related.

why you want to focus on my father’s research?”

He nodded.

thought it was hopeful thinking. He always admired Alpha Torin. He must have seen something of him in Theo. But some of these letters from him tell me he KNEW. Like he was absolutely certain

hopefully, that reason is in here

pouring 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

as it was to learn more about my family, we hadn’t found anything useful.

call me sooner,” he said, pulling me out of my moping. “Especially since I did actually write

sorry we didn’t think of it.

this mysterious door looks like? You said there were some symbols on it, perhaps I

said, picking up his phone and scrolling through. “We snapped some pictures while we were down

handed his phone to Armand who proceeded

he grabbed a pad

started to write the symbols out, making changes as he felt necessary. When

he said curiously. He shuffled through some of the books and files, muttering to himself until he

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

it all together.”

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

the leaders of a village that was plagued by attacks from neighboring forces. To save their