The Luna Choosing Game

“I should have the girl forcibly removed for ruining Prince Nicholas’s date,” Lena said, voice sharp. “I’m

sure Prince Nicholas himself is furious.”

“Nick–lass is mad at me?” Elva sniffed.

“No,” I said at once.

“He should be, if he isn’t,” Lena snapped. “You are a very nasty little girl, who

That’s enough.”

“-shouldn’t even be here.”

“I said, that’s enough!” I stepped forward, approaching Lena. “You will not talk to my daughter like that.”

“Fine,” Lena said, shifting her rage–filled gaze onto me. “Then why don’t we talk about you instead, Piper. You know you and your daughter don’t belong her but you insist on wasting everyone’s time and efforts by continuing to stay.”

until my dying breath. It was much more

wasting everyone’s time. But, while I was here, Elva would get the

been the healthiest she had ever been, and that was only thanks to the care and

back to receiving base–level care, and only then if I

I would face any amount of humiliation or degradation or indignity. I would waste

said. “He deserves better than to

coming from. Nicholas and the

I to purposefully put ourselves in the way of him finding the perfect Luna

be more careful in the future,” I conceded. “We’ll make sure not to

glad you can see how bothersome you are. Hopefully soon, none of

I would be eliminated the first round, but I felt nothing but distain for

of the game dictate it, or

your last

and marched out the

look of understanding passed between the quiet

suspicious. In Lena’s absence, she

just

in earnest. I rushed