The Luna Choosing Game by Jane Above Story

Chapter 0171

After the confrontation with Mark, I expected to be approached by Nicholas, so I wasn’t shocked when he called me away from the dining room at lunchtime to speak with me privately.

He started walking away from the dining room and I fell in step beside him. Eventually, in an empty

hallway, he turned to face me. A frown was firm on his face.

Mark told me that you and Julian started investigating the underground organization again, despite my

explicit instruction not to.”

“That’s correct,” I said. Maybe I should have denied it. I knew Nicholas only had my best interest at

heart, but that didn’t mean I could roll over to his every whim. He didn’t know all the facts. Maybe it was

time I told him the full truth, I wasn’t sure.

My answer made Nicholas’s face even more severe. This, I imagined, was the face he used to look down those that opposed him politically. It would be intimidating, if I had even an inkling of fear against

him.

“You have to stop, Piper. You must give this up and let it go. You are endangering yourself. I cannot allow that.”

head. “It doesn’t matter if I’m in danger. It’s worth it, if it

“If you

”

can’t convince me otherwise, Nicholas, I’m sorry.”

said, voice sharp. “What you are doing endangers

already in trouble. Can’t you see

again. “What do you mean?” The hardness in

my own waist, offering myself as

truth from the start. Maybe if he truly understood the depths of my fear, he would see my side of things. I doubted it – he’d always been a stickler for the rules – but there

powerful and growing stronger all the time,” I said. “How long will it be before the underground organization comes after her and

me so that he was only a

we’re under your roof? But what happens to us when we have to

on our own?”

way.

exposing the organization is the only way to

for the rest of her life?”

I knew he meant what he said, but in reality, he had no way of seeing it

him, but I had to crack his

how well–meaning