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.”

dimmed marginally, but that made his expression no more readable. I could practically see the cogs turning in his brain as he sorted through this new information, but

planning to do

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

being taken weren’t mere

“What

with the implicit

into silence once more. My wolf had

steal my wolf and my power? That seemed

nodded. “Alright. I

I exhaled in relief.

how

returned. He’d hold this

who knew what purpose.

was now indebted to Julian, and that knowledge brought me absolutely

for yourself,” Julian said. “You might

If you can find out more truth, perhaps it might ease the burden

I turned the words over in my mind, trying to decide if they were a threat

Elva.

she’s part of your family line, the child’s future abilities would

yours were, she

words so casually, as

protect Elva if those same people from the underground came