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

planning to

when he had reached a conclusion. “Have you ever considered that

and your wolf being taken weren’t

“What

your sister with the implicit purpose of obtaining your

My wolf had been strong,

to steal my wolf and my power?

I won’t share this information with anyone

I exhaled in relief.

guarantee for how

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

who knew what purpose.

indebted to Julian, and that knowledge brought

yourself,” Julian said. “You might find there is

If you can find out more truth, perhaps it might ease

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

Elva.

family line, the child’s future abilities would likely be

were, she might become the next

so casually, as if he’d been

protect Elva if those same people from the underground came for her, as they