The Luna Choosing Game by Jane Above Story

Chapter 10

Chapter 0010

But Julian would know, because he was there.

In another life, being near Nicholas would have given me enough reason to want to stay.

But he’d made his feelings about me clear. And I had other priorities.

My gaze slid to Elva, playing with her dolls at the foot of the bed.

“I don’t want to play house,” I said. “Nor do I want to partake in this game of undercutting nobles and

chasing princes.”

I had been away from nobility for a long time, but I hadn’t forgotten their cutthroat politics, where an action as small as selecting the wrong utensil at dinner could start a blood feud. Backstabbing, betrayals, pretending to be nice just to make someone vulnerable…

The memories made my already tired body even more exhausted.

reclaimed my attention. She recovered quickly this time, thank God, and returned

“My daughter is frail and sick often. I

his chin. “Piper, you

“Yes, but-

access to all the royal resources? Including our medical

I froze.

thought of that. Would the royal family truly be willing to use their resources

under the care of my family. We wouldn’t simply stand by and let you or

eyes at him. Turning away a sick

be said,

being so generous with what were

to know

him, Julian laughed. A roguish light danced

than gold, with

than I was in

a trickster then for sure, constantly teasing or performing elaborate pranks. Nicholas, the more serious one, had always accused

bomb in the teacher’s lounge, and in a panic, the fire department had been called in. Julian had laughed and said it wasn’t a real fire. He couldn’t understand

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