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.

location certainly seemed seedy. Empty, abandoned, and with poor lighting even in

a

stood from the driver’s seat and turned toward

feel anything?”

Like what?”

Anything

know what that meant. “I

his good mood slipped,

returned to the driver’s

true lead, you would have been able to tell.”

my seatbelt.

shift, he looked at me.

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

wolf was taken from you,” he said after a while, “you should still be able to feel it if

It’s attached to someone else, but it will always

true? I couldn’t remember much from when my

and had lingered for

I did recall from that time were

it feel like?” I

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

close, we can know to act. Else, we’re

7 will.”

back to the palace, Julian did stop and buy me breakfast at a fast food drive thru. As he passed me a bag of breakfast sandwiches and hash browns, he said, “Don’t

anything.”