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.”

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

to

palace, would he? She was just a

was certain of that. Especially when I thought of how gently he

would he take

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

a grave offense. Nathan had made clear that it could cost

Elva. I

I wanted to scream

I

the door, I glanced, and

told

less troubled now, looking fully at me. “Miss Piper, you are to go to the royal

with me. I’ll show

pace as he led me through the back hallways of the

allowed if I’d been

beheading if it

beds and a wall of

equipment and microscopes.

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