The Luna Choosing Game

Chapter 23

When I returned to the bedroom, Elva was missing from the bed. I nearly screamed, were it not for both of maids, who quickly approached me.

“W–where’s Elva?” I asked them, panic quaking my voice.

“You caused a right commotion, running around,” the talkative maid said. “It was enough to catch the

attention of Prince Nicholas.”

Nicholas? “He’s still at the banquet…?”

I remembered looking back at him as I was leaving. He’d been smiling at an eager girl desperate for his

attention.

“The banquet is still occurring,” the maid said. “He must have excused himself early.”

Why would he do such a thing? Surely he hadn’t overheard what Susie said about Elva? Even if he had, he w

wouldn’t have cared… would he?

“Prince Nicholas.came in here,” the quieter maid said. “He felt Elva’s fever, and then carried her out of

this room himself.”

was a spiral of fear and worries. I struggled to think straight. I only

to be near

wouldn’t make her leave the palace, would

as he’d changed from three years ago, he wouldn’t hurt Elva. I was certain of that. Especially when I thought of how gently he had held her when she ran to him

where would he take

Nowhere in the palace was off–limits to him. Where would I

was a grave offense.

Elva. I

trying to think I

I

the door, I glanced, and a

who had told me they’d been

me. “Miss Piper,

with me. I’ll show you the

my urgency, he maintained a fast pace as he led me through the back hallways of the palace, through places Nathan had

I’d been summoned, right? I didn’t have time to worry.

beheading if it

a few beds and a wall

equipment and microscopes.

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