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.

of tampering with the lock," Nicholas said. "No missing uniforms, no discrepancy among the guard, who are vetted beyond the norm to be assigned to such a post. I don't doubt them. Instead, it is simply as if he

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

but Hawk, leader of the underground organization? After all,

want with Joyce?" I asked. "Hasn't

a prince," Nicholas said. "If anything were to happen to my father, and then

I really didn't like that. Were the underground planning on

the Bear People to

myself. "The war

from his face in the next instant, taking away some of the

"But the Bear People...?"

lost princess. Even if she is dead, Julian will find her bones and

If anyone could find the lost princess,

many things to worry about, I was beginning to feel overwhelmed. I could carry all the burdens, I would to help Nicholas. I wouldn't shrink

was a lot to think over, to

turn public opinion on me. I could be gone with the next elimination ceremony, and then