The Luna’s Choice by Kat Silver

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Chapter 8:Theo

A pounding rang through my head, and I fell to the floor as my right leg gave way beneath me. My gut felt like it was in a vice, and I swear I felt a rib snap.

“Theo,” Kylee yelled as she came running to my side.

What the f*** was happening?

‘Mate!‘

Ayla!

Fear and panic shot through me. Something had happened to Ayla. I was feeling her pain. It was bad.

‘Briggs, get up here. Now.‘ I called through the mind–link.

“Baby, what’s wrong?” Kylee’s panicked voice sounded beside me. She was feeling across my body, trying to find the source of my pain.

She wasn’t helping. I pulled in as deep a breath as I could to help hide my reaction.

“Kylee, I’ll be fine. But I need you to go back to your room,” I ordered.

“Are you crazy? I’m not leaving you,” she shrieked.

“Kylee, I said go,” I snapped as Briggs entered the room. “Briggs, get her out of here. Take her to her room and make sure she stays there. And don’t f***ing tell anyone.” I put a

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command behind the last part.

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Briggs looked between Kylee and me angrily but nodded and grabbed Kylee by the elbow as she covered herself with a robe. When they were gone, I tried to pull myself up. I grunted as the movement intensified the pain. I had to get up. I had to find my phone. I had to find out where she was.

I saw my phone on the floor halfway under the bed. I cried out as I bent to pick it up just as Briggs came back into the room.

“What the hell is going on, Theo?”

“It’s Ayla. Something’s happened to her. She’s injured badly.”

“How do…”

I looked at him.

still isn’t broken?” he yelled as he rushed to help me up. “You

She and her

“Her wolf accepted it?”

rejected me today. I

dawned on him.

her rejection,” I confirmed. I searched through my contacts to find Ayla’s number. Kylee had put it in there for emergencies a while back. As

any idea where she would go?”

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straight to voicemail. I hung

have no clue which direction she would go in?

to voicemail. “No,”

probably hundreds of miles away,”

to

even go about

I yelled, grabbing his arm tightly. “We have to find her.

she not have her wolf?”

away, the lump forming in my throat making it harder

I looked

I tracked her down to some guy’s house. She was staying with him. Her scent

bellowed.

so desperate for her to break the bond.

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her everything Kylee told me about her.”

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his eyes. Then an eerie calm settled over

1. me.

to talk

forefront to listen intently, hoping Briggs would give him

And when I do, if she’s alive, I will bring her back here so you can accept her rejection

in agreement.

but stopped at the door. “And Theo, make sure he understands

The connection was meant to alert one mate that the other is in distress, so they can come and protect them. The pain would come and go until either they found each other or… the injured mate was no longer in pain. For

couldn’t panic. Panicking wouldn’t

was happening to her. The worst damage was

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