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Chapter 2: Was That Him?

“What? The prince’s Luna?!”

“Prince Theo is the King’s favorite son, and it’s most likely he’ll be the next king.”

“Then that makes his wife…”

The crowd buzzed with excitement at Beta Xavier’s words. The girls seemed overjoyed to think of themselves living in the palace as nobles, maybe even as a Luna Queen someday.

Some of them were so excited that they started clapping their hands.

Sophia glanced at them and sneered. “Foolish! They think they even have a chance!”

“Of course not! Miss Chambers, they are nothing compared to you!” Sophia’s followers flattered her, which brought a proud smile to her face.

“What if the prince doesn’t need our… our service?” one of the more composed voices asked Beta Xavier.

“Oh, yes, an important question,” he said, raising a finger in the air. Everyone quieted to hear him. “Those of you who are not successful in securing the prince’s favor will return to your packs after three years, with your payment of riches beyond measure.”

As he clapped his hands together, the girls cheered once

again.

Doubt rolled over me as I looked at Beta Xavier’s face. I didn’t believe him. People couldn’t just come and go from the royal palace. In fact, many rumors had arisen over the years regarding the disappearance of palace visitors… or their untimely deaths.

I was sure the truth wasn’t as glamorous as he was trying to make it sound.

As expected, he added, “However, His Majesty, our King Sebastian, would love to see you all try your very best, or-” He smirked, and the glee in his tone suddenly was replaced by an ominous warning. “Not only will you be thrown in prison for your negligence, but also you’ll bring shame and disgrace to your pack!”

My eyes widened. Beta Xavier was threatening us with our own packs! He was implying that if we failed to please the royals, we would bring destruction to our packs!

comment and were simply glad that they weren’t sent to the palace to work on their

reaction locked inside.

with me!” Beta Xavier declared. “Let us go meet the man himself,

began to move again. I exchanged a look with Brook. We had no choice but

aahs serenaded me as we took in

walkway. Elegant sculptures decorated every few steps of the royal garden. It truly was a

had been much more lighthearted. Being away from that

getting into the beautiful courtyard certainly eased most of

me started to chat about how grand it would be to stay here, and their conversations carried onto the subject of Prince Theo. His ruthless reputation somehow seemed to

again. “No one else is nearly as qualified as I am. Especially not

know she was talking about me, but i’d decided that she was the

coated the royal garden in gold, which made the palace seem

Beta had made it sound, the palace was nothing more

absolutely the last thing I wanted to do with

get intimate with the

come up with a way

You’ve been so quiet.” Brook caught up to me and asked, “What do you think about the news? What do you think about… Prince

know, Brook,” was all that I

something was going to happen, but I wasn’t sure whether it would be good or bad. I didn’t want to make my already worried friend even more concerned, so

to the living

gave us a stern look, and we all nodded in unison. At this point, I was

we stepped into a smaller garden. It was even more luxuriously decorated, and the flowers were more

I was paying attention to the layout of my surroundings. The importance of knowing all of my options where I was, and what obstacles I might confront-was ingrained in my mind as a small child by my

cautious father.

we went around the corner, my eyes were on the tall walls in the distance, and I tried to see if there was a gate nearby. At that

a vicious smirk on Sophia’s face. She’d pushed me! For Goddess’s sake,

my nose on the ground.

had already started to come up with

pain I’d