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 as

Queen had said. Unlikely. She had always been fickle with such

such an extent that she

felt purposeful, like Piper was being

being here, but to see my own family

made

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

one of them for not knowing her obscure,

I

gamer goodwill

Mark to teach Piper the

wanted to

with Zale while everyone else

to

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the ambassador’s favor, Piper was out of immediate danger. This left me time to ponder over other concems. Mainly, why didn’t Piper’s maids war her about her

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

been the one to suggest the harsh punishment for Piper

behind the thrones, but she was gone

on his face. I nodded approvingly. He

always.

now, how quickly he could tell something

for

“Lena,” I said.

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

sir.”

you.” I began walking in that direction. Mark,