The Luna Choosing Game by Jane Above Story

Chapter 0602

Nicholas, meanwhile, looked down and to the side. He wouldn't meet my gaze even as I walked nearer to him.

"Nick?" I prompted, fear weighing heavy on my heart.

*Unfortunately, that isn't all of the bad news I have to share," he said.

I braced myself. "What else?"

*Joyce has somehow escaped."

I gasped, shocked. How could that be? The youngest prince had been given the nicest prison cell I had ever seen in my life, but it was still a prison cell, buried deep under the palace grounds. This place is crawling with guards. How in the world would he escape?

And why would he want to? Veronica had been working with him, helping him understand the depths of his brainwashing. Had he reversed to his previous thinking in Veronica's absence?

Oh, God. Veronica was going to be devastated. She'd been working so hard with him. She saw part of herself in him, and sought to save them both. She would undoubtedly see this as her own failing.

missing uniforms, no discrepancy among the guard, who are vetted beyond the norm to be assigned to such a

up in my stomach. I knew what he was saying with that look. My thoughts had traveled down

but Hawk, leader of the underground organization? After all, he had done

could the underground organization want with Joyce?" I asked. "Hasn't he already

to my father, and then Julian and

the

expecting a war with the Bear People to do the job

myself. "The war makes everything so much more

from his face in the next instant, taking

"But the Bear People...?"

already investigating, searching for the lost princess. Even if she

If anyone could find the lost princess,

overwhelmed. I could carry all the burdens, I would to help

to consider, and to plan out what to

with knowing the King and Queen were working hard to turn public opinion on me. I could be gone with the next elimination