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 sorted through this new information, but I hadn’t

planning to

he had reached a conclusion. “Have you ever considered

being taken weren’t

hadn’t. “What do you

sister with the implicit purpose of

more. My wolf had been strong, but to purposefully target

steal my wolf and my power?

hummed to himself, then nodded. “Alright. I won’t share this

I exhaled in relief.

how long I’ll keep it

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

who knew what purpose.

Julian, and that knowledge

Julian said. “You

truth, perhaps it might

trying to decide if they were a threat or not, Julian slid his gaze

Elva.

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

she might become

as if

able to protect Elva if those same