The Luna Choosing Game

I glanced back at Susie. Looking at me, she crossed her fingers. If we could somehow manage to be together, that would be most ideal.

But no. Too quickly, Susie was called to be paired with someone else.

“Next we have Piper…”

I sucked in a breath. My remaining options weren’t great, but hopefully I wouldn’t be paired with

“And Linda.”

In the kitchen, Linda and I glared at each other. We were supposed to be going through the offered cookbooks, searching for the finger foods of our choice, but neither of us had touched them yet.

Other girls around us were chattering and laughing, working together as intended.

When I reached for one of the books, Linda scoffed, “You would.”

“What’s your problem?” I snapped, unable to stand the tension anymore.

I didn’t know why she had to push it further by being such a roadblock in the challenge. Didn’t she understand that if we butted heads here,

bad for us?

is that I’m being forced to work alongside. you, the absolute embarrassment of

always held my

me wonder now, knowing what I know. I wouldn’t be surprised if he conspired to

here.”

willing

overheard.

she wasn’t wrong exactly. Mark had given

Julian and Nicholas had lied about

my own merits. The thought gave me no comfort at

before. I don’t know what he wants from you, Piper, though I can guess. But even you

she thought Nicholas really wanted from me. The same thing everyone else thought too.

Sex.

pleasures. Didn’t they expect their husbands to be as virtuous as them? Or did they

simply not care one

previous opinions known. They didn’t care which prince they ended up with, they just wanted to be Luna. If they were so single–minded