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

might run into or who

–

began to pour into

a path that lead us away from absolutely everyone. We

two horses

a bow as we approached. They’d been

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

hadn’t told him the last time I rode, but he’d seemed to surmise it all his own. Julian was like that, noticing things. I wondered if I had any secrets 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

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

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

knew the area around the palace better than them. Julian continued to show that now, expertly avoiding

wilderness, until he finally slowed at the edge of a

behind a tree

almost as large as the

have lived

when suddenly I felt something, like a pull in

my breath