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

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

and left my half of the breakfast uneaten on the plate

to pick

took

left at some point last night and returned to his own

for the first time that day, I took in

least, I

my mind, even as we broke from eating

help but feel Terry’s cold hands

breath.

thoughts about that girl in the black dress who seemed to have my wolf. Who was she? Where had she come from? How had she gotten it? And why was

worse now, somehow, because I would never be able to find the answers. Not

and for the kingdom, but it frustrated me that he could not see the importance of discovering the truth.

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

by Terry, or by Nicholas. I had

let him stop me from protecting my daughter or any of those innumerous other souls out

the care of her nanny and Mark, I set off

palace before I thought to check the empty ballroom. I found him sitting alone on the

be so isolated

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

him. I had questions and demands, but he seemed almost…

blinked and his look of vulnerability faded. In its

if it’s you,”

his flirtatious charms and took a seat on the same step he was sitting

was also there last night. He had bome witness to

had the decency both to tell me it wasn’t my fault, as well as to make sure

Nicholas moved away.

taken advantage. He wouldn’t have. But Julian’s being present

the circumstances of my desire much quicker.

I was still

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

hands was horrible kind of violation. Terry had taken my pure feelings of want for Nicholas and mutilated them into

for what he tried to do to me and for what he did do. I could only hope,