The Luna Choosing Game by Jane Above Story

Chapter 23

Chapter 0023

When I returned to the bedroom, Elva was missing from the bed. I nearly screamed, were it not for both of maids, who quickly approached me.

“W–where’s Elva?” I asked them, panic quaking my voice.

“You caused a right commotion, running around,” the talkative maid said. “It was enough to catch the

attention of Prince Nicholas.”

Nicholas? “He’s still at the banquet…?”

I remembered looking back at him as I was leaving. He’d been smiling at an eager girl desperate for his

attention.

“The banquet is still occurring,” the maid said. “He must have excused himself early.”

Why would he do such a thing? Surely he hadn’t overheard what Susie said about Elva? Even if he had, he w

wouldn’t have cared… would he?

“Prince Nicholas.came in here,” the quieter maid said. “He felt Elva’s fever, and then carried her out of

this room himself.”

was a spiral of fear and worries. I struggled to think straight. I only

I had to be

palace, would he? She was

years ago, he wouldn’t hurt Elva. I was certain of that. Especially when I thought of how gently he had held her when she ran to him at

where would he take

a prince. Nowhere in the palace was off–limits

to his room. That was a grave offense. Nathan had made clear that it

Elva.

bedroom, trying to think I wanted to scream in

I

someone knacked on the door,

had told me

me. “Miss Piper, you are to go

I’ll

a fast pace as he led me through the back hallways of the palace, through places Nathan had not included

allowed if I’d been

beheading if it brought me to

a wall of bookcases. Several

equipment and microscopes.

far

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