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.

coughed and immediately reclaimed my attention. She recovered quickly this time,

frail and sick often. I have to

his chin. “Piper, you realize this is the royal palace,

“Yes, but-

wouldn’t you have access to all the royal resources? Including our medical staff

I froze.

family truly be willing to use their resources to help

must have seen the disbelief on my face. “While you are here, you are under the care of my family. We wouldn’t simply stand by and let you or your daughter

Turning away a sick child would surely be

would be horrible, be

was be being so generous

to know the real

Julian laughed. A roguish light danced

more brown than gold, with no

different than I was in the

or performing elaborate pranks. Nicholas, the more serious one, had

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 why

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