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.

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

of their doors to see the

be seen. Likely this was not something the royal

to see.

the back door, Lena had her

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

would

sneered. “You should have thought of that

would I have had the time? Somewhere between being startled awake and dragged into

knew talking back to her would get me nowhere. I had no

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

move,” one of them warned. Then they disappeared somewhere behind

from the palace. I couldn’t see what

looking out at the flowers and

like tiny, frozen daggers. After only a few minutes, my nightgown was

I wrapped my

They hadn’t said I couldn’t do that.

growing chill.

how long I kneeled there. The cold

a nearby tree and

flowed freely, with the rain to hide them. I was cold and tired

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me to do. They hoped I would give

medicine. Julian and I were going to

trade. And Nicholas…

Nicholas yesterday. The way he smiled. His kindness

be together again like we had been in the past, but I’d enjoyed being around him. Compared to my other reasons to