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

or who

–

pour into Julian’s phone

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

preparing two horses

with a bow as we approached. They’d been

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

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

put my foot 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

is in the security office. We have

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

from the boar, they had claimed that no one knew the area around the palace better than them.

he finally slowed at

behind a

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

must have

was, when suddenly I felt something,

my