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. As he stood, he offered me a hand to help me up from the couch, but I ignored it. I was afraid to touch him again.

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reaction I

twitched. My fingers twitched

from the sex, but… if we didn’t get out of here, I would scream. I needed to push myself

think, I

word of goodbye to Nicholas. Instead, I pushed past him and walked out the door. I headed toward the back courtyard. I was barely out the door before I shifted into my

at the tree line. Silver

pressed to

as a pack, the

know if they stuck to me like glue because Nicholas had asked them to look out for me, or if they genuinely saw me as pack, and pack stayed together. Maybe both. It felt like both, and that was enough

I

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

Lonely.

and I pushed

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

moon rounded overhead and disappeared

my mind and succumbed entirely to

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

with nature. It would protect me. The

didn’t know when I lost sight

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clearing. I purposefully hadn’t ventured overly far. Knowing there was danger lurking in every direction outside the forest, I’d taken to completing

it.

had purposefully avoided running

escape the

jumped in front of me. He sniffed at me, then shifted into

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

shook my head a little. I was still in wolf

Two full days. Elva and Nicholas have

Elva and Nicholas…?

I heard another howl, very similar to the one I had heard in

knew it