The Luna Choosing Game

Julian looked at me sideways for a long moment. “Oh my God, you actually believe that.”

A blush warmed my face. What was he implying? That Nicholas still cared?

No, knowing Julian, he was just trying to stir the pot again. I couldn’t trust anything he said or implied.

The road started to turn, and Julian, still looking at me, was missing it..

on

“Eyes on the road, please!” I shouted.

He corrected just in time, laughing all the while.

He slowed the speed considerably when we entered a town. He weaved the car through the streets.

before stopping in front of an old brick warehouse.

“Here we are,” he said, turning off the engine.

“I thought we were going on a date?”

“That was just an excuse to get you alone,” Julian said with a shrug. “I have a lead in the investigation,

but I need your presence to see if it’s a solid one.”

“And you couldn’t tell me this before?”

In a flash, his wicked smirk returned. “Are you disappointed?”

Rolling my eyes, I exited the car.

seedy. Empty, abandoned, and with poor lighting even in the

be a

from the driver’s seat and

feel anything?” he

Like what?”

Anything

at him. I didn’t know what that meant. “I

his good mood slipped, and

returned to the driver’s

If this was a true lead, you would have been able to

fastened my seatbelt.

on the gear shift, he looked at me. “You would have felt

silent, as Julian guided us through the town streets back the way we had

from you,” he said after a while, “you should still

attached to someone else, but it

remember much from when my wolf had

had lingered

recall from that time were filled with nothing

it feel like?”

feel it.” He glanced at me. “You have to promise to tell me if you ever

can know to act. Else, we’re just

7 will.”

palace, Julian did stop and buy me breakfast at a fast food drive thru. As he passed me a bag of breakfast

anything.”