The Luna Choosing Game by Jane Above Story

Chapter 0062

11

The next morning. when I woke up, I headed straight for the window to look at the sky. Fortunately, there

was no cloud in sight. Today, it seemed, I would escape my punishment.

One of these days, however, my luck would run out and I would be forced to kneel in the storm and hope

my body was strong enough to take it.

Elva and I dressed for the day, and hand in hand, we exited our room to head down to breakfast. Just

outside of the room, we were greeted by Mark.

“Piper, Elva.” He turned toward the two guards standing behind him. “From now on, these two will be

personally assigned to you.”

Their uniforms were more or less similar to other guards I’d seen, except these ones had green trim

around their cuffs.

“They are a part of Prince Nicholas’s personal guard,” Mark explained. “You will also find that others on

this floor have been replaced, though these two will be outside your door at all times if you need them.”

me soft nods. They seemed nice enough, much nicer than

personally vetted by Nicholas, then I had

seemed fond of Elva. I believed him when he said he would

that was

Mark dropped to one knee to

happened to you, Elva. But I

on, you have

reply, just looked at him

and your mom or Prince Nicholas aren’t

Do you

to look up at me. At my nod, she gave him her attention again.

smile restored. He rose to his

cort your

sick, wouldn’t it,

lot since the day before, she still seemed nervous, especially

guards, Mark included.

subtler differences in their outfits were lost on her. She saw them all as the

her out of a

she would come to trust them again. At

the girls were loudly chatting about the

banned from the gardens before I had gone

of her punishing

meant that none of Elva’s endangerment made it onto television,

not mean the other girls

yesterday – who wasn’t Lilliana, much to her obvious