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.

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

heads out of their doors to

seen. Likely this was not something the

to see.

floor, near the back door, Lena had

said, hoping to appeal to her sense of decency. If I went out into

it would soak straight

“You should have thought

the time? Somewhere between being startled awake

her would get me nowhere.

me forward, out into the gardens. They forced me down

warned. Then they

from the palace. I couldn’t see what happened behind

view was better though, I reasoned, looking out at the flowers and the

few minutes, my nightgown was entirely damp, clinging to me like a

I wrapped my

hadn’t said I couldn’t do that. It was all I

growing chill.

know how long I kneeled there. The

nearby

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

1. up.

do. They hoped

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

trade. And Nicholas…

smiled.

we could never be together again like we had been in the past, but I’d enjoyed being around him. Compared to my other reasons to want to