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.

discrepancy among the guard, who are vetted beyond the norm to be

stomach. I knew what he was saying with that look. My thoughts had

leader of the underground organization? After all, he had done similar when

Joyce?" I

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

Were the underground planning on

the Bear People to do

arms around myself. "The

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

"But the Bear People...?"

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

Julian. If anyone could find the lost princess, it was

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

over, to

hard to turn public opinion on me. I could be gone with the next elimination ceremony, and then I wouldn't be able to help with any of these