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

we might run into or who would

–

into Julian’s phone near instantly.

to follow a path that lead us away from absolutely everyone. We

horses

bow as we approached. They’d been expecting us.

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

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 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, I had been by

is in the security office. We have to go now to avoid being seen on the cameras.”

were past the fence, we urged

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

nothing but wilderness, until he finally slowed at the edge of

behind a tree line.

the clearing stood a massive mansion, almost as large as the palace itself.

have lived

suddenly I felt something, like a

stole my breath away.