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

something as trivial

insult to the royal family, the Queen had said. Unlikely. She had always been

an extent that she would exert

like Piper was being

unwanted attention simply by being here, but to see my own

the cruelty made my insides

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

them for not knowing

the kingdom in mind, I could almost pretend that

gamer goodwill

knew the truth. I sent Mark to teach

wanted to

else in the room stared in either

to

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me time to

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

the harsh punishment for Piper Perhaps she was

looked for her behind the thrones, but she

to my side with a satisfied look on his face.

always.

how quickly he could tell something was

looking for

“Lena,” I said.

discreet servant’s door in a comer of the ballroom.

sir.”

in that direction. Mark, without needing the command,