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.

heard some truly terrible

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

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

to pick at.

It took

at some point

the first time that day, I took in and exhaled a

For now, at least, I was safe.

of last night continued to linger in my mind, even as we broke from eating

I couldn’t help but feel Terry’s

breath.

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

to find the answers. Not since Nicholas had

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

protect people like me from ever being manipulated into giving

wouldn’t be cowed by Terry, or by Nicholas. I had my own heart and my

or any of those innumerous other souls out there who just wanted to

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

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

be so isolated or

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

you want to be alone?” I asked him. I had questions and demands, but he

blinked and his look of vulnerability faded. In its

mind company if it’s

rolled my eyes at his flirtatious charms and took a

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

both to tell me it wasn’t my

Nicholas moved away.

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

my

I was still

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

choice ripped from my hands was horrible kind of violation. Terry had taken my pure feelings of want for Nicholas

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