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

never to such an extent that

purposeful, like Piper was being

unwanted attention simply by being here, but to see my own family

cruelty made

the favor of our kingdom’s

of them for not knowing her obscure,

the kingdom in mind, I could almost

gamer goodwill

sent Mark to

wanted to

Zale while everyone else in the room stared in either

myself to

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to ponder over other concems. Mainly, why didn’t

Queen had implied that it had been Piper’s duty alone to know, but we had assigned knowledgeable maids to each of the girls precisely to

been the one to suggest the harsh punishment for Piper

the thrones, but she

returned to my side with a satisfied look on his face.

always.

now, how quickly he could

you looking for someone?”

“Lena,” I said.

a comer of the

sir.”

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