The Luna Choosing Game

Piper couldn’t think I was running away from her, despite that being exactly what I was doing.

I’d never let her know she had any power over me still.

If she knew, she’d likely use it against me. I continued to suspect that she was only here for nefarious

purposes

Her presence couldn’t have been a coincidence, despite what she said.

Mark caught up with me in the driveway near one of the royal family’s cars. He’d been my Beta a long time. There weren’t many things I didn’t tell him about.

Piper included.

“She’s not like how I pictured her,” Mark said now. “When you mentioned her before, I thought she might actually have cloven hoofs and a tail. A devil, for sure. But meeting her, she seems…. nice.”

“Don’t be deceived.” Like I had been.

I couldn’t let Piper get her hooks into me again. Yet even as I thought it, I could feel my dormant. attachment to her pushing against the outer edges of my heart, trying to make its way back in.

Mark seemed pensive, like he wanted to say more but held himself back.

I didn’t like that. He was my Beta, but he was also my friend and confidant. He was the only person around me anymore with whom I could talk to without having to wear the mask of the perfect prince.

your mind,”

“You’ve been different since she’s arrived. Almost more… open,

hid my

Around her, your emotions come out more easily. You’re more

with a

became sheepish “You told me to speak my

said. “That doesn’t mean that

time you are around her, watch how fast your emotions trigger, especially when dompared to when you are with literally

“Ridiculous.”

couldn’t be true. I

Piper’s trap again. She’d

say these things,

to me, if she

prince. I didn’t have time for frivolous entanglements like love. That wasn’t an indulgence

hid my identity

then, what I had to do. Even if

move. With Mark’s reluctant help, we had dwindled down the perfect candidate for what I planned

petite and soft–spoken. Her demeanor was flawless, she never looked

place. She seemed a bit demure for my tastes, but then, this wasn’t about

was about what would be best for