The Luna Choosing Game

Chapter 116

I forced myself to my feet. The tailor, after making sure I was upright and unharmed, immediately rushed from the room to retrieve a towel and a servant to clean the mess.

My soggy notes were beginning to fall apart in my hands, to wet to even maintain their paper shape.

“Linda,” I said, going to her.

She scrunched her nose as I came close, as if the very sight of me disgusted her. I was disheveled now, true, with my gown damp in some places and my hair a mess. But even so…

“Can I have those names again?” I asked. I knew she had written them down same as me.

She quickly hid her notepad from my sight. “If you lost those names, then this is on you, Piper. You need

to learn to take responsibility.” She narrowed her eyes. “We wouldn’t want anyone to think you had unfair

advantage.”

“It’s not like that,” I said.

She continued on, like I hadn’t said anything. “At least half of our table will look good, and the royal

will be able to tell who did which half.”

spirit of the event,” I said. “We’re supposed to work together. Adversaries

like the Luna is supposed to.”

an adversary. Surely the royal family will understand that.”

walked by me and out the door. The other girls all shunned me, except for Susie, who gave

sympathetic wave.

we had been, but we’d tried

what we had decided upon. I

about Linda’s preferences, after having

Using that knowledge, maybe I could at least make a compatible half of

were maybe correct,

pages, when one of the King’s servants found me.

summoned to stand in audience with the king.” the

wasn’t the servant’s fault that I was maybe

chase me. I doubted I

fear deep down, rose my chin in defiance, and decided to face my inevitable end. I only hoped Nicholas could hear

servant led me out of the kitchen and around the

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