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 with whom I could

your mind,”

she’s arrived. Almost more… open, I

I still hid my true

out more easily. You’re more present

with a

became sheepish “You told me to

can, I said. “That doesn’t

your

“Ridiculous.”

couldn’t be true. I wouldn’t allow

Piper’s

him to say these things, meant he had to be

to me, if she was

for frivolous entanglements like

since I hid my identity

then, what I had to do. Even if it

With Mark’s reluctant help, we had dwindled

was petite and soft–spoken. Her demeanor was flawless, she never looked

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

about what would be best for

a good Luna, I reasoned. I ignored the way

the girls arrived for the