The Luna Choosing Game by Jane Above Story

Chapter 0053

Nicholas

I had no idea why I decided to help Piper. She had betrayed me in the past. By all accounts, I should

have been pleased to see her fail.

Yet, when I stood outside the sitting room and heard Lena suggest the traditional punishment for Piper, I

couldn’t stand idly by and do nothing.

The thought of Piper kneeling out in a storm, soaked, chilled, and miserable sent an unfamiliar tremor of

rage through me.

I didn’t feel strong emotions like that anymore, not since I turned off my heart three years ago. But this

hot anger had been enough to melt through my emotional freeze.

I couldn’t be detached, not with this.

Ambassador Zale had taught the royal family the secret Merfolk greeting only a few hours before. The

timing had been peculiar, almost as if he had expected us to utilize this new knowledge to help the girls

with the challenge, if we so wished.

I hadn’t intended to teach the greeting to anyone. But that had been before the Queen threatened Piper

trivial

family, the Queen had said. Unlikely. She had always

but never to such an extent that she would exert so vicious a

like Piper

known she’d garnered unwanted attention simply by being here,

made my

earn the favor of our kingdom’s people, and yet, the Queen herself was

for not knowing her obscure, unspoken

in mind, I could almost pretend that I was helping Piper

goodwill

the truth. I sent Mark to teach Piper the

wanted to

watching her dance with Zale while everyone else in the room

to

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me time to ponder over other concems. Mainly, why didn’t

to know, but we had assigned knowledgeable maids to each of the girls precisely

the harsh punishment for Piper

behind the thrones, but she was

with a satisfied look on his face. I nodded approvingly.

always.

quickly he could tell something

you looking for someone?” he

“Lena,” I said.

a discreet servant’s door in a comer of the ballroom. 1 saw her sneak out

sir.”

began walking in that direction. Mark, without needing the