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.

Piper? I heard some truly terrible rumors.”

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

my throat, and left my half of the

to pick

left the grounds?” I asked. It took

point last night and

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

For now, at least, I was safe.

my mind, even as we broke from eating to

couldn’t help but feel Terry’s cold hands on

breath.

who seemed to have my wolf. Who was she? Where had she come from? How had she gotten it?

so many unanswered questions. It felt worse now, somehow, because I would never be able to find the answers. Not since Nicholas had forbad Julian and me from continuing our

was only worried for me and for the kingdom, but it frustrated me that

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

Terry, or by Nicholas. I had my own heart and my own beliefs.

daughter or any of those innumerous other souls out there

Elva safely into the care of her nanny and Mark, I set off on

before I thought to check the empty ballroom. I found him

to be

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

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

look of vulnerability faded. In its place was the same sort of cocky expression I’d

mind company if it’s

his flirtatious charms and took a seat on the same

Julian was also there last night. He had bome witness

the decency both to tell me it wasn’t my fault, as

Nicholas moved away.

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

circumstances of my

I was still

it. I did have desire for Nicholas. I had wanted him to kiss me on the balcony. In time,

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

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