The Luna Choosing Game by Jane Above Story

Chapter 0164

By the next morning, the drug had worked its way through my system and I felt like my old self again. I

went down to breakfast, where I was reunited with Elva, who had stayed with Susie the night before by

order of Nicholas.

I was grateful for his foresight. Mortified as I was by my actions and sounds, I was at least spared the

embarrassment of explaining any of this to Mark or the nanny myself. Or worse still, to Elva..

A thought so stomach–churning, I dared not even think of it.

So when I did finally greet her, it was with a tight hug and big smile, the same as always.

Susie and I didn’t always sit together, but we chose to that morning. There were still many empty chairs with the previous elimination, and I was feeling vulnerable from what had happened the night before. I needed my friends.

Around us the girls were chattering about the curiousness of the evening’s events. Terry was to be one of the main judges of the night, but he never came to ballroom.

Also as curious, both Nicholas and Julian disappeared sometime in the night, only to reappear this morning, one with a black eye and the other with an injured hand.

“You don’t suppose the princes got into a fight with each other?” one of the girls asked.

“No,” Lilliana said flatly. “He is too mature to take part in such childish antics.”

“Julian does love to tease,” said someone else.

“Not enough to tempt a prince away from his decorum,” Olivia added. “Prince Nicholas been around Prince Julian for years. He’s surely built up a tolerance.”

“Well, then what happened with Sir Terry?“”

“Maybe he started the fight,” someone said, and another laughed. A third shushed them.

“Don’t be ridiculous,” Olivia said, rolling her eyes.

As they continued to argue, Susie turned in her seat to face me. I had Elva in my lap, but she was busy stuffing her face with all the delicious pastries.

I heard some truly terrible rumors.”

away her concern. I felt hungover some, with a cloudy head and tired eyes, but otherwise okay Except for my continued embarrassment over my

down the bile rising in my throat, and left my half of

pick

took

“Word is, Terry left at some point last night and returned to his own

a sense of relief and for the first time that day, I took in and

at least, I was safe.

linger in my

day. I couldn’t help but feel Terry’s cold hands on me or smell his

breath.

the black dress who seemed to have my wolf. Who was she? Where

It felt worse now, somehow, because I would never be able to

for the kingdom, but it frustrated me that he could not see the importance of

being manipulated into giving away their wolves and their abilities. It was the only

Nicholas. I

any of those innumerous other souls out there who just wanted

nanny and Mark,

empty ballroom. I found him sitting alone on the bottom

wasn’t like him to be so

click of my heels on the tile steps, he turned back to

to be alone?” I asked him. I had questions and demands, but he seemed almost…

vulnerability faded. In its place was the same sort

company if it’s you,” he

rolled my eyes at his flirtatious charms and took a seat on the same step he was sitting

Julian was also there last night. He had bome witness to the full extent of my

had the decency both to tell me it wasn’t my

Nicholas moved away.

He wouldn’t have. But Julian’s

circumstances of my desire much

I was still

Nicholas. I had wanted him to kiss me on the balcony. In time, I

Terry had taken

hated him for both for what he tried to do to me and for what he did do. I could only hope, in