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

run into or who would run into

–

to pour into Julian’s phone near

away from absolutely everyone. We didn’t even see a single servant until we reached

preparing two horses for

they said with a bow

Julian said to me. “She’s gentler Better for a rider

he’d seemed to surmise it all his own. Julian was like that, noticing things. I wondered if I had any secrets I could keep from him. He already seemed to know everything about me.

returned to me

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

lead, we rode our horses out of the paddock. Once we were past the fence, we urged our horses to run. I

he and Nicholas had saved me from the boar, they had claimed that no one knew the area around

or so, seeing nothing but wilderness, until he finally slowed at the edge of a clearing. I slowed my own horse beside his, until

hidden just behind a tree

the clearing stood a massive mansion, almost as large as the palace itself. Someone very

must have

who it was, when suddenly I felt something, like a pull in

my