The Luna Choosing Game by Jane Above Story

Chapter 0068

I awoke the next morning to the sound of thunder outside my window and pounding on my bedroom door. I’d barely gotten out of bed when the door burst open and a slew of Joseph’s guards flooded in.

“Mommy!” Elva shouted as she hid under the covers.

“At least let me get dressed,” I said, holding up my hands.

The guard closest to me shook his head. “Orders are orders.” He grabbed me roughly by the arm and

dragged me toward the door.

met

In the hallway, Joseph’s guards were arguing with Nicholas’s. Mark was running toward me.

“Mark!” I called to him. “Elva’s in there!”

“Don’t worry. I’ll watch her!” he called back. He tried to come closer to me, but one of the guards roughly

shoved him. “Hey!”

“Mark, please.” I was worried he might start something. “Elva!”

Mark grit his teeth, but stepped backwards, letting the guards and me pass.

“Keep her away from this! Please!”

“I will,” he promised.

my nightgown, I was dragged through the hallways. It was early, just before

peeked their heads out of their doors to

Likely this was not something the royal family

to see.

ground floor, near the back

change,” I said, hoping to appeal to her sense of decency. If I

nightgown, it would soak

sneered. “You should have thought of that

time? Somewhere between being startled awake and

talking back to her would get me

guards shoved me forward, out into the gardens. They forced me down to my knees in the

one of them warned. Then they disappeared somewhere

was facing away from the palace. I couldn’t see what happened

reasoned, looking out at the

only a few minutes, my nightgown was entirely damp,

I wrapped my

couldn’t do that. It

growing chill.

long I kneeled there. The cold had set in. The wind had picked

struck a nearby tree and I

hide them. I was cold and tired and miserable, but I

1. up.

what they wanted me to do. They hoped I would give up and

I couldn’t. Elva needed her medicine. Julian and I were going to expose

trade. And Nicholas…

yesterday. The way he smiled. His kindness when

I’d enjoyed being around him. Compared