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

into or who would run into us.

–

pour into Julian’s phone near instantly.

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

preparing two horses

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

me. “She’s gentler Better for

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 could keep

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

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

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

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 hurt the horses.

an hour or so, seeing nothing but wilderness, until he finally slowed at the edge of a clearing. I slowed my own horse beside his, until

stopped, hidden just behind a tree line.

as large as the palace itself. Someone

must have lived

when suddenly I

stole my