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.

here, you know. Mark. And Nicholas both. They are down in the sitting room with your parents," I said. Susie's eyes went wide as saucers.

have kept him away. If your parents wouldn't have let him inside, he

a little

arrival at your door might

"True."

who I was..." I

about you often. You were my

how much it hurt to hear she

me to give you this." I held my palm out with

at

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

plucked the ring from my palm and held it up closer to her, to inspect it. She touched it with only her fingertips, treating it as a

Then, in the next, she began to cry again. "What's

"And even if they did. Or even if that didn't matter to me, Mark would be throwing his whole life away with this. He can't be

to get it to work. If this is what you

continued looking at the ring for another minute or two, before she

want to see him,"

doorway. With Susie leading, we didn't need the butler

finger. I couldn't help my smile. When she saw it,

a personal matter, Prince Nicholas, as I've consistently said "Susie's father was saying. He cut himself off when Susie

*Susie..." her mom said.

eyes were on Mark, and his on her. Then his gaze dropped to her hand, where she'd

he said, the word overflowing with

closer to Susie's parents,

dropping into a deep bow. "Please allow me to marry your

parents both went

love with your daughter,"

don't know of her

was quicker. She touched her husband's arm. "He

baby is mine. And I would raise it as my

vouch for this man," Nicholas said. "He is my Beta and a loyal man besides. He will treat your

well."

Susie's father said. "This is