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.

He was the only person around me

speak your mind,” I told

since she’s arrived. Almost more…

my true thoughts away from

her, your emotions come out more easily. You’re more present

with a

“You told me to

I said. “That doesn’t mean that I have

you are around her, watch how fast your emotions trigger, especially when dompared

“Ridiculous.”

true. I

to fall into Piper’s trap again.

Mark wouldn’t lie to me. For him to say these things, meant

was dangerous to me, if she

prince. I didn’t have time for frivolous entanglements like love. That

I hid my identity to

do. Even if it

help, we had dwindled

and soft–spoken. Her

seemed a bit demure for my tastes, but then, this wasn’t about

what would be

I reasoned. I ignored the way that thought made my

the girls arrived for the banquet that night, I