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.”

I could practically see the cogs turning in his brain as he sorted through this new information, but I hadn’t a

to do

reached a conclusion.

wolf being taken weren’t mere

“What

with the

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

and my power?

hummed to himself, then nodded. “Alright. I won’t share this information with anyone for

I exhaled in relief.

for how long

next inhale, my anxiety returned. He’d hold this over my head

who knew what purpose.

to Julian, and that knowledge brought me

for yourself,” Julian said. “You might find there is some truth in

truth, perhaps it might ease the burden of this

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

Elva.

of your family line, the child’s

were, she might become the

words so casually, as if

as I was, I wouldn’t be able to protect Elva if those same people from