The Luna’s Choice by Kat Silver

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Chapter 5: Theo

“What the hell is going on?” Ayla’s voice floated down to me as she ran down the stairs. She froze halfway down the moment she laid eyes on me. “What are you doing here?”

A silk robe hung open, revealing the shorts and cut–off tank top she wore underneath, her caramel–colored hair flowing loosely around her shoulders. She was gorgeous. And clearly not in distress. I took a step toward her as my rage grew.

“What are you doing here?” I spat back.

“That’s none of your concern,” the male interjected.

I turned on him again, a rumbling growl emanating from my chest, my claws extending. I was ready to rip his throat out.

“Stop,” Ayla yelled, coming the rest of the way down the stairs and stepping between the two of us. “Zeff, go to work.”

“Absolutely not. I’m not leaving you here with him. Not in the state he’s in.”

“I would never hurt her.” Kieran was ready to burst from my skin. How dare this bastard think we would ever lay a hand on

her.

“We both know that’s a load of bullshit.”

“Zeff, you’re not helping. Shut the hell up and leave. Go to work,” Ayla insisted.

“Ayla…”

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“I said go.” Her expression softened a little. “I’ll call you later.”

The hell she would.

The Zeff guy shot me another hate–filled look before exiting

out the open front door. We stood in silence until the sound of his engine faded.

“Are you f***ing him?”

Her eyes went wide, then narrowed as she took a step forward. “Are you f***ing my sister?”

A strangled snarl escaped me, but she started speaking again before I could recover from her accusation.

“What I do with a male – or anyone for that matter – is none of your damn business.”

“The hell it isn’t.” Electricity passed through the air between us. “He has no right to put his hands on you.”

energy I

stop. Sparks of intense electricity shot through me, invigorating all my senses. I pushed her to open for me, my tongue seeking hers. Fuck, she tasted

“MINE.”

off her with

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“Fuck you.”

took a step toward her again

f***ing hurt

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but for some reason, I instantly regretted it. But I couldn’t take it back. I wouldn’t take it

off of

Kylee a long time ago. Putting your own life ahead of hers while she

drain from her instantly, that blue fire fading from

you

stopped being a sister to Kylee years ago. You disappeared all the time, leaving her alone with a

posture completely changed. She almost went completely limp in front of me, stumbling until her back hit the wall. Her façade

She said

had struck a nerve, a very deep one, and I wouldn’t stop. She had to break

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at all hours of the night when you were a teenager. How you dropped out of high

“What?”

with someone as cold and

eyes a steely gray as

something I couldn’t figure out but would

you, Theo Arden, as my mate. I

my head, screaming

Theo Arden, accept your rejection.” The pain in my chest amplified, but I could still feel the bond. “We’ve

wolf has to accept it,” she

“Yours didn’t.”

“Didn’t she?” Ayla said.

she didn’t want to break

‘She didn’t. Still accepted.‘

primal creatures. They were animals, after all. They weren’t

they wanted. Not without a

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to accept it,” Ayla said with

tightened to a point I thought my teeth would shatter. The noise in

almost unbearable.

“He won’t.”

she forced

“I can’t.”

doesn’t have a choice. I’ll never be with him, and neither will she,” Ayla said, tears threatening to fall from

but he wouldn’t give in. He was an Alpha. He was as strong as me. I’d never overpower him on this. Ayla must have sensed my stalemate. Or her wolf did and told her

cut my ties