The Luna Choosing Game

Chapter 53

Nicholas

I had no idea why I decided to help Piper. She had betrayed me in the past. By all accounts, I should

have been pleased to see her fail.

Yet, when I stood outside the sitting room and heard Lena suggest the traditional punishment for Piper, I

couldn’t stand idly by and do nothing.

The thought of Piper kneeling out in a storm, soaked, chilled, and miserable sent an unfamiliar tremor of

rage through me.

I didn’t feel strong emotions like that anymore, not since I turned off my heart three years ago. But this

hot anger had been enough to melt through my emotional freeze.

I couldn’t be detached, not with this.

Ambassador Zale had taught the royal family the secret Merfolk greeting only a few hours before. The

timing had been peculiar, almost as if he had expected us to utilize this new knowledge to help the girls

with the challenge, if we so wished.

I hadn’t intended to teach the greeting to anyone. But that had been before the Queen threatened Piper

over something as trivial as glove length.

An insult to the royal family, the Queen had said. Unlikely. She had always been fickle with such frivolous

an extent that

like Piper

she’d garnered unwanted attention simply by being here, but to see

made my

earn the favor of our kingdom’s people, and

of them for not knowing her

mind, I could almost

goodwill with the

the truth. I sent Mark to

wanted to

with Zale while everyone else in the room stared in either shock or

to

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the ambassador’s favor, Piper was out of immediate danger. This left me time to ponder over other

we had assigned knowledgeable maids to each of

to suggest the harsh

but she was gone from her usual position near

with a satisfied look on his face.

always.

quickly he could tell something was

you looking for

“Lena,” I said.

in a comer of

sir.”

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