The Luna Choosing Game by Jane Above Story

Chapter 0020

Around us, the girls were speaking with each other and the royal family. Only Nicholas, Susie, and myself

were silent.

The King gave Nicholas a hard look, and Nicholas’s lips twitched like he wanted to frown but didn’t.

I thought he might talk to me, but instead, he leaned forward to see Susie around me.

“It is a pleasant evening, wouldn’t you agree, Susie?”

Susie paled. “You… know my name?”

“Of course. I know the name of every candidate.”

“… oh…” She audibly swallowed a spoonful of soup. “Of course. Sorry to offend.”

“I’m not offended,” Nicholas said. “But, to my question. Wouldn’t you agree?”

Susie’s face shifted from white to red so fast, I worried she might be lightheaded. I placed an arm beside her, ready to catch her if she tilted.

“A–Agree?” Susie stuttered

“Yes.” Nicholas’s brow furrowed slightly. “That the weather is pleasant?”

Yes, Yes, very pleasant.” Susie pushed her chair back. “If you’ll excuse

feet and started walking away. Halfway to the door she turned around, seemingly having realized she was still clutching her cloth napkin. She dropped it onto her chair, and then scuttled

at all otherwise, like

very shy,” I

back in his chair and

www he was furious with me, but if he continued

with the girls,

to be zooming in

laugh, bringing the attention to

at me again,

my

immediately schooled his frown into a

you ever studied birds, Piper?” he asked me. He didn’t wait for me to answer. “I’ve taken to raising some. Beautiful, majestic creatures. But there is one bird that I

“Which is?” I asked.

His gaze sliced into me. “They lay their

tactic, but shameless.”

from my face. He was talking about me. I had a child, yet

choosing game. Did he think this was some clever ploy of mine, to

than I had any

my mouth with my

Then I spoke.

I

I love birds,” I

He lifted his soup–filled

They are so