The Luna Choosing Game by Jane Above Story

Chapter 0388

Nicholas, for his part, only looked more concerned. He wasn’t alarmed. He wasn’t even startled. He just watched me closely.

“Talk to me, Piper,” he said. “I can’t understand your growls yet.”

I tried to bite back my growl, but I couldn’t manage. It erupted, curling around my words even as I attempted to speak. “Jealous.”

That was all Nicholas needed to hear. His concern ebbed somewhat. “Yeah. I know how that feels too.”

“Like this?” I asked.

He nodded. “It’s practically overwhelming.”

“How…?” I started, failed, tried again. “How do you manage?”

“I’ve broken five or six punching bags,” Nicholas said, smiling a little. “Exercise is good for it. If you wear down your energy, you have less to spend on anger.”

I sighed, trying to reclaim myself. I was in no mood to jog, but… with our recent exertion, I was feeling a bit tired. I urged my inner wolf to rest.

“You okay now?” Nicholas asked.

My body felt more relaxed. On top of me, Nicholas must have noticed.

“It’s difficult to control my emotions,” I said. “I’m sorry.”

“Don’t apologize.”

“I hate it,” I said, only that wasn’t true. Feeling everything amplified was fine when we were being intimate. So I corrected, “I hate feeling this jealousy.” I blinked back frustrated tears. “I wish we could just be together.”

Nicholas’s face crumpled a little. He looked down and away, hiding himself from me. “I would give up just about anything for you Piper.”

Just about anything wasn’t the same as anything.

I knew the one thing he would never be able to give up: the crown. And that was the one thing keeping us apart.

A growl elicited from my throat again. “Maybe I should go for a run.”

hand to help me up from

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of reaction

twitched. My fingers twitched with

if we didn’t get out

couldn’t think,

I pushed past him and walked out the door. I headed toward

the tree

pressed to mine, “We

pack, the

out for me, or if

I

moon was so big and bright. I stopped and I howled.

Lonely.

and I pushed

run very far already, but I wasn’t ready to quit. I wanted to push myself to exhaustion and I was

disappeared behind me. Then, I continued to run, even

point, I totally shut off my mind and succumbed entirely to the instincts of

was better like this. I didn’t have to worry about kingdom politics or fears. I didn’t have to think about how my

was one with nature. It would protect me.

know when I lost sight

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I collapsed in a clearing. I purposefully hadn’t ventured overly far. Knowing there

it.

I had purposefully avoided running into other

though, I could no longer escape the worries that meant to

soon, Julian, in his sleek wolf, jumped in front of me. He sniffed at me,

actual hell, Piper?” His usual smirk was missing. Instead, he looked pissed at hell. “Do you have

a little. I was still

Two full

Elva and Nicholas…?

howl, very similar to the one I had heard in the night that sounded so lonely. This one sounded

it was