Chapter 26: Theo
It was after midnight when I could finally head to my room. I soon as I opened the door, I smelled her. I immediately wished I could just close the door and leave without her noticing, but that wasn’t going to happen.
“What are you doing here, Kylee?” I asked. I didn’t even have the energy to sound angry, but I still was.
“You left me there,” Kylee cried angrily.
“Excuse me?” My energy returned, fueling my anger.
“You just left me at the hospital. I went all the way there to make sure you were okay after being worried sick, and you just left me there.”
“Had you been at the library in the first place, you wouldn’t have had to worry about me,” I bellowed. “You should have been there by my side. It was our pack that was suffering. They needed to see their Alpha and their Luna there. But you couldn’t be bothered.”
“Theo…”
“When you did decide to show up, I just had to console a friend who had just lost her mother because I hadn’t made it to her in time. We lost a pack member, a good woman, and you’re mad because you had to find your own way home?
How ignorant can you be?”
Kylee threw herself against me, wrapping her arms around my waist
Dividing into pages now
Chapter 26: Theo
288 Vouchers
“You’re right, Theo. You’re right,” she cried. “I understand I should have been there as the pack’s Luna. It was a mistake. I‘ m sorry.”
I didn’t move to return the embrace. Her behavior was
unacceptable.
“Please, baby,” she sniffled. “It was a mistake. I’m still learning
to be a Luna. This is all a lot newer for me than it is for you. I promise I will do better. Just, please, don’t be mad at me anymore.”
That’s what she was worried about? That I was mad at her?
I gripped her arms, pulling them from around me and pushing her away slowly. I went to my armchair and fell into it, closing my eyes as I pinched the bridge of my nose. Exhaustion had started to make my head ache, matching the one in my chest.
I felt Kylee come and sit on my lap, and I had to fight the urge to push her off.
“I am really sorry, baby,” she said, running a hand along my chest.
I sighed. “Kylee, I think we should postpone our mating ceremony.”
“What?” she gasped, jumping off my lap. “You don’t mean that. Because I made one mistake?”
“Because you’re not ready for this, Kylee.”
She fell to the floor before me. “But I will be. I promise I’ll do better, Theo. Please, I love you. Don’t be mad at me, please. I’ll prove it to you. I promise.”
Dividing into pages now
Chapter 26: Theo
288 Vouchers
Her begging both hurt and disgusted me. Part of me hated that I was upsetting her, but I also knew it was necessary. Her actions needed to be addressed. But her reaction to the confrontation was a bit pathetic. It wasn’t the show of strength and conviction and humility that a Luna would experience after a mistake like this.
I looked down at her. Tears were streaming down her face, and the fear and pain were clearly etched across her face. Ayla flashed into my head. I remembered the steely resolve in her demeanor. The neutral expression on her face as she experienced the extreme pain of the broken mate bond, the severing of her pack, and the loss of her wolf all at once. The only evidence of her turmoil was the tears that ran silently.
It took a strength I couldn’t match at the time. And
apparently, neither could Kylee.
Comments
The readers' comments on the novel: The Luna’s Choice (Theo and Ayla) by Kat Silver
This book is missing 20 chapters. It goes from 151 to 171. You miss a whole bunch on what has happened....