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.”

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

to do

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

and your wolf being taken weren’t

“What do you

someone exploited your sister with the implicit purpose

into silence once more. My wolf had been

to steal my wolf and my power? That

then nodded. “Alright. I won’t share this information with anyone

I exhaled in relief.

for how long I’ll keep

inhale, my anxiety returned. He’d hold this over my head then, for who knew how

who knew what purpose.

Julian, and that knowledge brought

said. “You

find out more truth, perhaps it might

the words over in my mind, trying to decide if they

Elva.

the child’s future abilities would likely be formidable. If

yours were, she

words so casually, as if he’d been talking about the

wouldn’t be able to protect Elva