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

had said. Unlikely. She had always been

but never to such an extent that she would exert so

like Piper

simply by being here, but to

cruelty made

our kingdom’s people, and yet, the Queen herself was going

not knowing her obscure, unspoken

the kingdom in mind, I

to gamer goodwill

truth. I sent Mark to teach Piper the secret

wanted to

everyone else in the room stared in either shock or

myself to feet

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to ponder

that it had been Piper’s duty alone to know, but we had assigned knowledgeable maids to each of the girls precisely to prevent these kinds of

the harsh punishment for

behind the thrones, but she was gone from her

his face. I nodded approvingly. He did his job well,

always.

he

looking for someone?” he

“Lena,” I said.

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

sir.”

you.” I began walking in that direction. Mark, without needing the command, fell in step