The Luna’s Choice by Kat Silver

Chapter 88: Theo

I went back to the apartment and found Marie in the kitchen.

“Alpha Theo,” she greeted me. “I didn’t get a chance to thank you. Well, for everything, really. But mostly for letting me be with her now. It means so much.”

“She needed her mother,” I said.

“She did,” Marie agreed. “If I’m being honest, I never thought I’d see the day that Ayla needed me again. I know that is mostly my fault. But it means more than I can express that I can actually be who she needs me to be.”

“I’m grateful for that, too,” I replied. “But right now, I need to talk to Ayla. It’s important. Do you mind giving us some space?”

“Oh, yes,” Marie said with a nervous nod. “Of course. I’ll get our stuff settled into our room down the hall.”

“Thank you,” I said.

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I waited for the front door to close before I took a slow step towards my bedroom. There was a pit in my stomach as my nerves ate away at me. I didn’t know what to expect from our conversation, but I knew I needed to fix whatever was broken between Ayla and me.

I needed my mate.

So badly I needed her right now.

I crossed the threshold into our room and had the wind knocked out of

me. Ayla was up out of bed. But she was packing.

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you

leaving,” she said defiantly

I

about to beg her to stay, but I stopped myself. That wasn’t the support she

quivering. “I get it. I wouldn’t want me either. I’ll be out of your way soon

“What are you talking about? Of course I

can’t hear it. Please. Just let me go and

urged, completely confused. “Ayla, you’re not making

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failed at everything. I can’t even make it through a semester of

“Sees what?”

along. And now that no one can deny

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incredulously. “You think

her body as she cried. I managed to get my arms around her and held her so tight I was afraid I’d break her. Tears streamed down my face as I felt her body

as I rocked her, waiting for her to calm enough

in her hair. “For how smart you are, you really are being stu

“Don’t deny it…”

it with every fiber of my being,” I insisted strongly. “How could you ever think I would want her over you? That could never,

“But she’s better…”

I gripped her face, making her look me in the eye. “Stop. Don’t do this to me, baby. Please. I can’t lose you now. I don’t want her. I could never

so broken, Theo,” she gasped. “I lost our

didn’t lose me. I know it hurts. I’m hurting, too. But