CHAPTER 5

Luna

I can’t get involved with this. He made his choice—his choices! I can’t mix myself up in this mess.

But it was too late. I was already involved. Leo was at my side, stealing through the elongated night shadows, creeping through the back streets of Nampa City that I knew so well, following my way toward the only place I could take him.

My house.

This is so stupid, so dangerous. If Orson finds out—

“Where are you taking me?” Leo’s question wasn’t even contained in a whisper, forcing an end to my mental debate.

I whirled around to glower at him, sticking my index finger to my lips.

“Would you keep your voice down?” I hissed. “Don’t call attention to yourself.”

He smirked, but he didn’t speak again for another few blocks. He’d been lucky I’d found him first, but that had been from my earlier recon.

I’d put out the word to some of the sketchier users in town to keep an eye out for Leo, and Rabbit had come through, mentioning that someone had checked into Wade’s shitty inn fitting my