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.”

me a hand to help me up

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of reaction I would

fingers

from the sex, but… if we didn’t get out of

think, I

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

me at the tree line. Silver chuffed at

pressed to

pack, the three of us began to

for me, or if they genuinely saw me as pack, and pack stayed together. Maybe

I

and ran, until the stars hung high in the sky. And the moon was so big and bright. I stopped and

Lonely.

heart ached, and I pushed forward

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

and I ran, until the moon rounded overhead and disappeared behind me. Then, I continued to run, even as the

point, I totally shut off my mind and succumbed

I didn’t have to worry about kingdom politics or fears. I didn’t have to think about how my mate would soon

I was one with nature. It would protect me. The troubles of humans

know when I lost sight of Night and

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eventually, around midday, my legs eventually gave out and I collapsed in a clearing. I purposefully hadn’t ventured overly far. Knowing there was danger lurking in every direction outside the forest,

it.

had purposefully avoided running into other people and

no longer escape the worries that

jumped in front of me. He sniffed at me,

the actual hell, Piper?” His usual smirk was missing. Instead, he looked pissed at

my head a little. I was still

sky. “Two days, Piper. Two full days. Elva and Nicholas have worried themselves

Elva and Nicholas…?

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

it was