The Luna Choosing Game

The fact was, for whatever the reason, he hadn’t revealed my secret yet. If I played his game, maybe he’d

continue to keep it.

I pressed my hand to his elbow and nudged him closer to the door, further from Elva. I didn’t want her to know the truth yet. We’d have our own conversation in time, when she was old enough to understand.

voice low, just in case, I confessed, “Elva isn’t mine.”

Julian’s perfect veneer finally cracked. His eyes widened for a few solid seconds before he recovered

himself. “Really?”

“She’s the daughter of my twin sister,” I said. The memories burned through my brain, painful and hot.”

sold my wolf to pay off Elva’s ransom.”

“She was being held for ransom?”

“My sister owed too much to so many people. They’d taken Elva as payment. They only gave me so

many days… I did what I had to do.”

could practically see the cogs turning in his brain as he

planning to do with

he had reached a conclusion. “Have you ever considered that your

wolf being taken weren’t mere

hadn’t. “What

if someone exploited your sister with the implicit purpose of obtaining your

surprised me into silence once more. My wolf had been strong, but to purposefully target my

steal my wolf and my power? That

I won’t share this

I exhaled in relief.

I can’t guarantee for how long I’ll keep it

returned. He’d hold this

who knew what purpose.

to Julian, and that knowledge

you to investigate for yourself,” Julian said. “You

more truth, perhaps it might ease

my mind, trying to decide if they were a threat or

Elva.

of your family line, the child’s future abilities would likely be formidable. If

yours were, she might become

as if he’d been talking about the

danger referenced. Weak as I was, I wouldn’t be able to protect Elva if