The Luna Choosing Game by Jane Above Story

Chapter 0168

I found Elva, Susie, and Mark at the edge of the gardens, where the fields of short grass began.

Elva was playing with Silver and Night. She crawled over Night, while Silver nosed at her stomach or

licked her face. Elva’s laughs were loud and happy, and easily pushed away any lingering sadness I held

inside of me.

At least, it did – until I noticed that Elva seemed to be talking with the wolves.

She’d done so before. It wasn’t some big revelation that she could. But she was getting better at it. Watching her, it was like she was having deeper conversations with the wolves than she was even able to out loud with me or other humans.

I moved toward where Susie and Mark were sitting together in the grass. They were leaning toward each other but not otherwise touching. I cleared my throat to signal my approach, and they both looked up at me in surprise.

Mark relaxed when he saw it was me. Susie dipped her head, a blush on her cheeks.

I didn’t call her on it. Instead I simply lowered myself into the grass beside her.

“Has Elva been playing with the wolves for a while?” I asked. It was a softball question, to lead Susie away from her embarrassment. I already knew Susie and Mark were crushing on each other, and it didn’t matter to me.

get wolves to trust me. These two…” Susie waved toward Silver and Night. They’ve already accepted her as one of their

a talent. Someday she will be

I was proud of her growing skill. But it also worried me so

ahead of where I had been. How long would it be until the underground organization came

next?

I had to do, I would do it. Elva would

and her wolf friends. We chatted about this and that, nothing heavy. But inside, I was

we were supposed to meet for a banquet dinner, I left Elva with the nanny and sneaked away down to the ballroom. I moved slowly and carefully, not wishing to run into

even the servants

else. The last thing! needed was for information to get back to Terry before I was ready for him to know it. He knew far too

dress? Why had she seemed so familiar? How did she have

From there, maybe I could work outward and

was important, and this was

had drugged me. At the time, I had thought I could trick him into

No more

this room out of all of them

the cushions in case something had fallen from Terry’s pockets, but when I reached the section where I had

I slowly walked the perimeter of the room. The lady in black had not been in my imagination. She had been real. I was sure. But the had vanished as soon as

the nanny and sneaked away down to

even the servants.

that no one could tell anyone else. The last thing I needed was for information to get back to Terry before I was