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 I hadn’t a

to

when he had reached a conclusion. “Have you ever

wolf being taken weren’t

“What do you

your sister with the implicit purpose of obtaining

me into silence once more. My wolf had been

to steal my wolf and my power? That

I won’t share this information with anyone

I exhaled in relief.

can’t guarantee for how long I’ll

returned. He’d hold this over my head then, for

who knew what purpose.

indebted to Julian, and that

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

out more truth, perhaps it

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

Elva.

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

she

so casually, as if he’d

wouldn’t be able to protect Elva if those same people from the underground came for her, as they