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

into or who would run into

–

into Julian’s phone

us away from absolutely everyone. We didn’t even see a single servant until we reached the stables themselves,

horses for

with a bow

“She’s gentler Better for a

that, noticing things. I

and mounted the mare. Once I was in the saddle, my horse–riding days returned to me quickly. Although

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

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

from the boar, they had 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

an hour or so, seeing nothing but wilderness, until he finally slowed at the edge of a clearing.

stopped, hidden just behind a

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

must have

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

my