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.

recovered quickly this time, thank

daughter is frail and sick often. I

to his chin. “Piper, you realize this is the

“Yes, but-

while you are here, wouldn’t you have access to all the royal resources? Including our medical staff and

I froze.

thought of that. Would the royal family truly

disbelief on my face. “While you are here, you are under the care of my family. We

at him. Turning away a sick child would surely

be said,

being so

know

roguish light danced in his eyes. They were

than gold,

than I was in

trickster then for sure, constantly teasing or performing elaborate pranks. Nicholas, the more serious one, had always accused him of never taking anything

a panic, the fire department had been called in. Julian had laughed and said it wasn’t a

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