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.

okay, Piper? I heard some truly terrible rumors.”

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

swallowed down the bile rising in my throat, and left my half of the breakfast uneaten on the

to pick

took great strength to

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

words filled me with a sense of relief and for the first time that day, I took in and

at least,

to linger in my mind, even as

feel Terry’s cold hands on me

breath.

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

somehow, because I would never be able to find the answers. Not since Nicholas had forbad Julian

and for the kingdom, but it frustrated

exposed, it would protect people like me from ever being manipulated into giving

by Nicholas. I had

let him stop me from protecting my daughter or any of those innumerous other souls out there who just wanted to do the right

of her nanny and Mark, I set off on my

searched through most of the palace before I thought to check the empty ballroom. I found him sitting alone on the bottom stair, deep

to be

tile steps, he turned

asked him. I had questions and

its place was the same sort of cocky

company if it’s you,” he

took a seat on the same step he was

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

tell me it wasn’t

Nicholas moved away.

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

the circumstances of my desire much quicker.

I was still

for Nicholas. I had wanted him to kiss me on the balcony.

hands was horrible kind of violation. Terry had taken my pure feelings of want for

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