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

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 the breakfast uneaten

pick at.

took

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

relief and for the first time

at least, I

continued to linger in my mind,

the day. I couldn’t help but feel Terry’s cold hands on me

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

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

he was only worried for me and for the kingdom, but it frustrated me that he could not see the

giving away their wolves and their abilities. It was the only

by Terry, or by Nicholas. I had my

those innumerous other souls out there who just wanted to do the right thing, and lost their wolves

after seeing Elva safely into the care of her nanny and Mark, I

empty ballroom.

him to be

tile steps, he turned back to look at

I had questions and demands, but he seemed almost…

of vulnerability faded. In its

if

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

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

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

Nicholas moved away.

that Nicholas would have taken advantage. He wouldn’t have.

of my

I was still

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

Terry had taken my pure feelings of want for

to me and for what he