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.

She recovered quickly this time, thank God, and

overhear, I said to Julian, “My daughter is frail and sick often. I have to work hard to care

to his chin. “Piper, you realize this

“Yes, but-

wouldn’t you have access to all the royal resources? Including

I froze.

Would the royal family truly

“While you are here, you are under the care of my family. We wouldn’t simply stand

eyes at him. Turning away a sick child

be horrible, be

was be being so generous

to know the

him, Julian laughed. A roguish light

more brown than gold, with no

not so different than I was in the

trickster then for sure, constantly teasing or performing elaborate pranks. Nicholas, the more serious one, had always accused him of never taking anything

teacher’s lounge, and in a panic, the fire department had been called in. Julian had laughed and said it wasn’t a real fire. He couldn’t understand why anyone was

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