The Luna Choosing Game by Jane Above Story

Chapter 0622

The butler showed me to Susie's room, and then quickly excused himself outside of her door. When he was gone, I knocked.

"Go away!" Susie called in a watery voice. She was crying.

I knocked more insistently as I pushed open the door.

*I said -* she started, cutting herself off she say me. "Piper?"

"Hi, Susie," I said.

"Oh, Piper!" She was sitting at her desk, the tears running down her cheeks. As I entered the room, closing the door behind me, she jumped from the chair and ran to me.

We shared a hug. Relief flooded through me.

I stepped back after a moment, to look her over. She didn't seem too worse for wear. Other than the crying, she didn't show any signs of abuse or neglect.

"What are you doing here?" Susie sniffed. "I'm sure word has gotten around by now."

*Rumors don't matter. Come back to palace."

*If you've heard the rumors, you know why I can't."

"Everyone will forget, the moment you appear. They'll all just think it's gossip and it won't matter," I say. "Since Jessica is the only other contender for Joyce, you wouldn't even have to face elimination."

*Piper," she sounded so sad. "I can't come. It's just not rumors. My parents... They know the truth about me."

*How could they?" I asked. She wasn't showing yet. Sure they might suspect, but to have real proof?

"I told them," Susie said.

I startled, speechless.

"I didn't want to lie anymore about any of it," Susie said. "I don't want to have to pretend to have feelings for Joyce, when the only one I really want is Mark."

The weight of the ring in my pocket near doubled, and I regretted holding it back even this long.

And Nicholas both. They are down in the sitting room with your parents," I said. Susie's

have let him inside, he would have scaled the walls

a little at

able to stop him before he did anything drastic. Nicholas had a plan, as he always does, that his arrival at your door might open the way. My presence was required for this. It is, after all, more likely they'd let me in to see you than some

"True."

knew who I was..." I

little. "I talk about you often. You were my

another hug. How grateful I was to be in her life! Though how much it hurt to hear she had such a hard time getting friends. She

tug the ring from my pocket. "Mark told me to give you this." I held my palm out

looked at it

it's overdue," I told her. "He wants to

her, to inspect it. She touched it with only her fingertips, treating it as a precious, rare,

her face, softening all of her features. Then, in the next, she began to cry again. "What's the matter?" I asked her, stepping

if that didn't matter to me, Mark would be throwing his whole life away with this.

that," I told her. "Nicholas will find a way to get it to work. If this is what you want, Susie, you can't let it get away. You have to follow your

the tears. She continued looking at the ring for another minute or

see

for the doorway. With Susie leading, we

way, Susie slid the ring onto her finger. I couldn't help my smile. When she saw it, she smiled too, though

really is a personal matter, Prince Nicholas, as I've consistently said "Susie's father was saying.

*Susie..." her mom said.

and his on her. Then his gaze dropped to her hand, where she'd already put on the

he said, the word overflowing with obvious

to Susie's parents,

deep bow.

parents both went wide-eyed.

am in love with your daughter," Mark said. "I cannot live without

of her condition!" Susie's father

quicker. She touched her

do," Mark confirmed. "The baby is mine. And I would raise

"He is my Beta and a loyal man besides. He will treat

well."

Beta?" Susie's father said. "This is most