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

Brian’s instruction, we were able to follow a path that lead us away from absolutely everyone. We didn’t

preparing two horses

with a bow as we approached.

“She’s gentler

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

I was in the saddle, 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 having

atop his horse, received another text. “Brian is in the security office. We

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

Nicholas had saved me from the boar, they had claimed that no one knew the area around the palace better than them. Julian continued

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

just behind

almost as large as the

have

when suddenly I felt something, like a pull in

stole my breath away.