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.

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

“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 royal

I froze.

hadn’t thought of that. Would the royal family truly be

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 would surely be

be said, smile

so generous with

to know

I asked him, Julian laughed. A roguish light

gold, with no flecks of

so different than I was in

performing elaborate pranks. Nicholas, the more serious one, had always accused him of

been called in. Julian

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