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.

Empty, abandoned, and with poor lighting even in

be a place for

from the driver’s seat

feel anything?” he

Like what?”

Anything

what that meant. “I feel

good mood slipped, and

to the

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

my

at me. “You would have felt

as Julian guided us through the town streets

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

else, but it will

much from when my wolf had been taken. The pain

and had lingered

I did recall from that time were filled with nothing

feel like?”

feel it.” He glanced at me. “You have to promise

Piper. If it’s close, we can

7 will.”

breakfast at a fast food drive thru. As he passed me a bag of breakfast sandwiches and hash browns, he said, “Don’t say I

anything.”