The Luna Choosing Game by Jane Above Story

Chapter 10

Chapter 0010

But Julian would know, because he was there.

In another life, being near Nicholas would have given me enough reason to want to stay.

But he’d made his feelings about me clear. And I had other priorities.

My gaze slid to Elva, playing with her dolls at the foot of the bed.

“I don’t want to play house,” I said. “Nor do I want to partake in this game of undercutting nobles and

chasing princes.”

I had been away from nobility for a long time, but I hadn’t forgotten their cutthroat politics, where an action as small as selecting the wrong utensil at dinner could start a blood feud. Backstabbing, betrayals, pretending to be nice just to make someone vulnerable…

The memories made my already tired body even more exhausted.

attention. She recovered quickly this time, thank God, and returned to

and sick often. I have to work

his chin. “Piper, you realize this

“Yes, but-

to

I froze.

family truly

seen the disbelief on my face. “While you are here, you are under the care of my family. We wouldn’t simply stand by and let you or

my eyes at him. Turning away a sick child

be

being so generous with what

know

roguish light danced in his eyes. They were different

gold, with no flecks

different than I was in

teasing or performing elaborate pranks. Nicholas, the

Julian had put a smoke bomb in the teacher’s lounge, and in a panic, the fire department had been called in. Julian

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