The Luna Choosing Game by Jane Above Story

Chapter 0040

Piper couldn’t think I was running away from her, despite that being exactly what I was doing.

I’d never let her know she had any power over me still.

If she knew, she’d likely use it against me. I continued to suspect that she was only here for nefarious

purposes

Her presence couldn’t have been a coincidence, despite what she said.

Mark caught up with me in the driveway near one of the royal family’s cars. He’d been my Beta a long time. There weren’t many things I didn’t tell him about.

Piper included.

“She’s not like how I pictured her,” Mark said now. “When you mentioned her before, I thought she might actually have cloven hoofs and a tail. A devil, for sure. But meeting her, she seems…. nice.”

“Don’t be deceived.” Like I had been.

I couldn’t let Piper get her hooks into me again. Yet even as I thought it, I could feel my dormant. attachment to her pushing against the outer edges of my heart, trying to make its way back in.

Mark seemed pensive, like he wanted to say more but held himself back.

that. He was my Beta, but he was also my friend and confidant. He was the only person around me anymore

can speak your mind,” I

different since she’s arrived. Almost more… open, I

hid my true

more easily. You’re more present in the moment, instead of just standing there

with a flat

told me to speak my

doesn’t mean that I have

are around her, watch how fast your emotions trigger,

“Ridiculous.”

couldn’t be true. I

refused to fall into Piper’s trap again. She’d just

him to say these things, meant he had to be

was dangerous to me, if she

have time for frivolous entanglements like love. That wasn’t

my identity to

knew then, what I had to do. Even if it made me feel

move. With Mark’s reluctant help, we had dwindled down the perfect candidate for

name was Lilliana. She was petite and soft–spoken. Her demeanor was

place. She seemed a bit demure

about what would be

I ignored the way that thought made my

for the banquet that night, I