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.

no sign 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

in my stomach. I knew

in an instant but Hawk, leader of the underground organization? After

with Joyce?" I asked. "Hasn't he already served his

anything were to happen to my father, and then Julian and myself, Joyce would have legal claim

really didn't like that. Were the underground planning on hurting Nicholas and

were they expecting a war with the

wrapped my arms around myself. "The war makes everything so much more

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

"But the Bear People...?"

searching for the lost princess. Even if she is dead, Julian will

to believe that. I trusted Julian. If anyone could find the lost princess,

worry about, I was beginning to feel overwhelmed. I could carry all the

to consider, and to

be gone with the next elimination ceremony, and then I wouldn't be able to help with any of