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 us.

–

began to pour into Julian’s phone near instantly.

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

preparing two horses for ride.

Royal Highness,” they said with a bow as we approached. They’d been expecting us.

Julian said to me. “She’s gentler

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

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

horse, received another text. “Brian is in the security office. We have to

Once we were past the fence, we urged

remembered how after he and Nicholas had saved me 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 might

finally slowed at the edge of a clearing. I slowed my own

stopped, hidden just behind

almost as large

have lived there.

almost asked Julian who it was, when suddenly I felt something,

stole my breath