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.”

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

planning to

when he had reached a conclusion. “Have you ever

wolf being

hadn’t. “What do

if someone exploited your sister with the implicit purpose

more. My wolf had

steal my wolf and my

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

I exhaled in relief.

I can’t guarantee for how long I’ll

anxiety returned. He’d hold this over my head

who knew what purpose.

and that knowledge brought me absolutely

said. “You might find there

perhaps it might ease the

I turned the words over in my mind, trying to decide

Elva.

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

yours were, she might become

casually, as if

referenced. Weak as I was, I wouldn’t be able to protect Elva if those same