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

Julian, “My daughter is frail and sick often. I have to work hard to care

a finger to his chin. “Piper, you realize this

“Yes, but-

to all

I froze.

family truly be willing to use their

the care of

him. Turning away a sick child would

be horrible, be said,

was be being so generous with what

to know

A roguish light danced in his eyes. They were

brown than gold, with no flecks

so different than I was in the Academy,” he

pranks. Nicholas, the more serious one,

a panic, the fire department had been called in. Julian had laughed and said it wasn’t a real fire. He couldn’t understand why anyone was

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