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.”

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

to do

had reached a conclusion. “Have

your wolf being

“What do you

your sister with the implicit purpose of obtaining

into silence once more. My wolf had been strong,

my wolf and my power?

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

I exhaled in relief.

can’t guarantee for how long

my anxiety returned. He’d hold this over my

who knew what purpose.

indebted to Julian, and that knowledge brought me

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

find out more truth, perhaps it might ease

to decide if they

Elva.

family line, the child’s

like yours were, she

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

Weak as I was, I wouldn’t be able to protect Elva