The Luna’s Choice

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Chapter 248: Ayla

My mind was still reeling from what I had done in the pavilion. Now this. And I still had to figure out how

I was going to deal with the other pack leaders. I had a feeling my demonstration had them more weary

of me than accepting at the moment.

I rubbed my forehead as there was a knock on the door. Kingston entered the room.

“Ah, and here must be the one who has the other half of the stone,” Sister Mona said.

We all looked at one another in surprise.

“The women of my order are trained to be observant,” Sister Mona stated. “A few months every ten

years isn’t a lot of time. We have to be skilled to gather as much information as possible.”

“Alpha Kingston, this is Sister Mona of the Moon Haven Order,” Theo introduced. “Sister Mona, this is

Alpha Kingston of the Sablemane Pack.”

“I see,” Mona replied. “If I recall, you are an adopted Amvorov.”

Kingston looked around the room in surprise and confusion. “I fear I took too long to arrive and have

missed something.”

“You could say that,” I replied.

“When we found Luna Matilda’s tomb, I remembered something my father had told me when I was a This content belongs to Nô/velDra/ma.Org .

boy,” Alpha Torin said. “It was a story about a secret hidden within both Luna Matilda and Alpha Isaac’s

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burial crypts. It wasn’t until we found Luna Matilda, telling us they weren’t buried together, that I

realized this needed to be looked into further. It led Luna Grace and I to a human city, where we found

the Moon Haven Order.”

“Now, perhaps you can tell me how a Sablemane came to be in possession of the Onyxcrown

Moonstone.”

We are the protectors of the MOO

Prophecy,” Sister Mona said.

“Alpha Kingston is an Onyxcrown survivor,” Theo defended. “He just recently retrieved the Moonstone

from it’s hiding spot when it was threatened to be discovered.”

“My father was the Onyxcrown Beta,” Kingston said.

“So you also understand what it means to be the protector of such an important secret,” Sister Mona

indicated.

We briefly filled Kingston in on the information he had missed out on. I was eager to move on and find

out what Sister Mona expected us to do next.

“Say you are right,” I stated, “and Theo and I are meant to make the Moonstone whole again, what

about the other pack leaders? How are we supposed to reconcile them with the fact that the largest

pack will now also be the most powerful? I just got done telling them we weren’t looking for a crown.”

“I never said this would be easy,” Sister Mona said gently. “Only that it was your fate.”

“We can’t hide it from them,” Theo said. “Powerful or not, the last thing we want is a war.”

“I think you may have better luck addressing one or two of them at a time,” Briggs noted. “They don’t all

see things the same and it seems to

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me that diplomacy can often get in the way when we are all in a group. I think you’ll have better luck

getting honest responses.”

“I think Beta Briggs is right,” Alpha Torin replied.

Theo nodded. “Agreed. At least when delivering the information. We will eventually have to get them all

together to confirm whatever outcome we are looking at.”

“Well, Alpha Kingston is already here,” I said. “What do you say? Should we do this?”

Kingston’s expression softened. He could sense my apprehension. I didn’t want this. My life had

already been the object of too much attention as it was. How would I ever find any peace? How could I

ever move on from everything I had been through?

“I will support whatever decision the two of you make,” he said firmly. “But I won’t deny that I believe

this is what you were meant to do. We’

ve always known you had a destiny bigger than any of us, Ayla.”

I shouldn’t have, but I felt a little betrayed. I turned away from

everyone.

“I think we need some time to discuss things,” Theo said to the others. “Briggs, could you see to the

other pack leaders and set up a meeting schedule? Sister Mona, I would greatly appreciate your

attendance.”

“Of course,” she replied.

“For now, do you all mind giving us some privacy?”

They all agreed and I listened to them leave our apartment, not even turning back to watch them go.

Mina rested a hand on my shoulder briefly before exiting, but the rest left quietly. When we were alone,

Theo came up behind me, snaking his arms around my waist and

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resting his chin on my shoulder with a heavy sigh.

“We should clean up,” he whispered.

I glanced down. We were both still covered in now dry blood. I could only imagine how terrifying we

both looked.

Theo kissed my neck and took my hand, guiding me back toward our bedroom. I chose not to look at

the mirror as he started the shower and mirror as he started the shower and we undressed: He pulled

me under the hot water and began to wash my body clean. As he did so, I felt some of the pain and

anger and guilt and all the other emotions that had been boiling inside me for weeks start to ebb away.

But it wasn’t just the temporary release I had been getting glimpses of.

As Theo finished, I returned the favor. I watched the red-tinted water flow off of him and I thought about

what I done. What it had meant. What it would mean going forward. And I felt some of that burden

wash away with the filth of that evening.

I didn’t feel anger toward Malcolm or Amy anymore. But more importantly, I didn’t feel guilty for their

deaths. I did what I had to do. I understood what Sister Mona spoke about when she said we had

changed as a species. After spending the last few months reading so much of our history, I knew we

had lost something of who we were.

But we were still wolves.

I felt Dasha stir within me. I realized she hadn’t been there with me like she once had been before. Had

I really drowned her out that much?

‘Hey, girl,’ I reached out to her. ‘I’m sorry. I guess I should have asked you how you felt about this

whole Moonstone thing.’

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She came to the trend of a wind wasting for the to war something

else to ask her what I should have asked her all along

Should we do this”

I’s our inte