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

as trivial as

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

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

purposeful, like Piper was being

garnered unwanted attention simply by being here, but to see

cruelty made my

the favor of our kingdom’s

not knowing her

of the kingdom in mind, I could almost pretend that I was helping Piper selflessly,

goodwill with the

I sent Mark

wanted to

else in the

to feet

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of immediate danger. This left me time to ponder over other concems.

implied 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

suggest the harsh punishment for Piper

her behind the thrones, but she was gone from her usual position near the

on his face. I nodded

always.

now, how quickly he could tell something was

for

“Lena,” I said.

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

sir.”

that direction. Mark, without