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.

and immediately reclaimed my attention. She recovered quickly this time, thank

Julian, “My daughter is frail and sick often. I have to

finger to his chin. “Piper, you realize this is the

“Yes, but-

here, wouldn’t you have access to all the

I froze.

Would the royal family truly be willing

the disbelief on my face. “While you are here, you are under the

my eyes at him. Turning away a sick child would surely be

horrible, be said,

be being so generous with what

know

him, Julian laughed. A roguish light danced in his eyes. They were

than gold, with

than I was in

performing elaborate pranks. Nicholas, the more serious one, had

had put a smoke bomb in the teacher’s lounge, and in a panic, the fire department had been called in. Julian had laughed and said it wasn’t a

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