The Luna Choosing Game by Jane Above Story

Chapter 0205

Nicholas

I stood before the King in his chambers. He was angrily pacing the length of the room. Back and forth,

back and forth. Occasionally he would stop to shout at me, but he’d always break himself off, unfinished,

and continue pacing.

“How could you think –?”

“You deliberately disobeyed –!”

“What do I even –?”

A few minutes in, his face was turning red, and my mother, the Luna was forced to intervene. She stood

in his path to keep him from pacing, then whispered into his ear.

I never totally understood their relationship. My mother was a private person. And though the two of

them often gave compliments to each other, any meaningful conversations only went on behind closed

doors.

had no idea if they even liked each other at all,

their marriage was a show they put on for

a few deep breaths. He nodded at my mother,

Piper after I specifically told you

in his eyebrow or a downward

not belong here.”

genuine, with a sick child we are helping to take

of me. “She deserves to be as much – if not more than anyone else.”

–

—

his hands

“She can be a fine person without being a good Luna, Nicholas.”

nearly every event with

to help them see without directly calling

opinions could never be wrong.

in the Queen’s direction. “He’s

of the crown can do to good people. It’s not just for the sake of the kingdom that I caution you, but for

I knew she spoke true.

burden of a cruel world would press down on her. It would wear at her soul, and I

enough to

poor little Elva’s illness. She didn’t need the added weight of a near war and a disgruntled people.

me to do,” I

King said. “You