The Luna Choosing Game by Jane Above Story

Chapter 0351

I couldn’t think clearly when faced with such an obvious threat. My protective instincts kicked into high gear. I would do anything to protect those closest to me. But Piper was close

to me to.

I swallowed hard. “I care about Piper.”

The King’s demeanor had shifted. Maybe he could see the hesitation in me, where I had been so firm before, and softened in response.

“You are a prince. Someday, you may very well be a king. Those feelings won’t mean anything in the end. Everything is secondary to your duty.”

His words cracked through my heart until it blistered. I knew what he meant. Even if I cared for Piper, I would never be able to marry her. Unlike the others, she hadn’t been trained since birth to become a queen. She’d probably hate the job, even if it meant we could be together.

Piper and I would have to part ways eventually. Shouldn’t it be now? When I could help protect my family and my kingdom with the choice?

I didn’t know what to do. I was worse than torn, I was agonized.

think it over, but I expect your

I walked the halls like a ghost, my lost in the riptide of my thoughts. I weighed every option, but

from one of the hallway windows as the protesters began to assemble

have to look to know it was

send you?” I asked.

took vigil beside me, and watched out the window as I did.

–

soothing voice more motherly than she’d sounded since before this competition began.

contest started that she

to me in the past months it wasn’t that I thought she hated me. She was my mother, and that bond was strong. I just thought she didn’t like me very

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either. Maybe it was a two–way street. Maybe I kept my distance too.

do the right thing,” my mother said. “And that the right thing may seem unclear to you now,

with such distain. “Her name is Piper.”

Luna sighed and her voice regained its softness. Yet now that