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

we might run into or who would

–

into Julian’s

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

two horses

with a bow as we approached. They’d

mare,” Julian said to me. “She’s gentler Better for a rider out of

own. Julian was like that, noticing things. I wondered if I

in the stirrup 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

another text. “Brian is in the security office. We have to go now

out of the paddock. Once we were past the fence, we urged our horses to run. I rode in Julian’s shadow as he expertly

area around the palace better than them. Julian continued

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

hidden just behind

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

have lived there.

I felt something, like

my breath