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

run into or who would

–

began to pour into

were able to follow a path that lead us away from absolutely everyone. We didn’t even see a single servant until we reached the stables themselves, where the stable

two horses for

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

me. “She’s gentler Better for a rider out

like that, noticing things. I wondered if I had any secrets I could keep from him. He already

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 memory,

office. We have to go now to

rode our horses out of the paddock. Once we were past the fence, we urged our

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,

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

stopped, hidden just behind a

almost as large as the palace itself. Someone very

must have lived

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

stole my breath