The Luna Choosing Game

“How do you plan on getting to this mansion you mentioned?” I asked, once we were out in the hall.

Julian’s Beta, Brian, fell in step behind us. “We can’t take that flashy car again, if we actually want to keep

it secret this time.”

“It would be too conspicuous to drive. Even if we escaped the grounds undetected, the bad guys would

quickly notice our arrival.”

“What’s your plan, then?”

He glanced at me. “Can you ride a horse?”

I haven’t ridden since the academy, but I thought I could still manage somehow. So I nodded.

“Good. We’ll have to sneak there though. Brian?”

Brian widened his stride to walk at Julian’s side. “Yes, Prince Julian?”

“Run interference, yeah?”

“Of course.” Brian increased his pace, breaking ahead of us, likely to block the path of any guards or

onlookers we might run into or who would run into us.

–

into Julian’s phone

Brian’s instruction, we were able to follow a path that lead us away from absolutely everyone. We didn’t

horses for ride.

Royal Highness,” they said with a bow as we approached.

the mare,” Julian said to me. “She’s gentler Better for

like that, noticing things. I wondered if I had any secrets I

and mounted the mare. Once I was in the saddle, my horse–riding days returned to me quickly. Although in almost every memory, I had been by Nicholas’s side. I felt a bit hollow, not having him here now.

from atop his horse, received another text. “Brian is in the security office. We have to go now to avoid being

we urged our horses to run. I

claimed that no one knew the area around the palace better than them. Julian continued to show that now, expertly avoiding fences and too–high cliffs that might hurt the

but wilderness, until he finally slowed at the edge of a clearing. I

stopped, hidden just behind a tree line.

as large as the palace itself. Someone

have lived there.

when suddenly I felt something, like a

my breath away.