The Luna Choosing Game

Chapter 124

Nicholas’s mouth was so close. As I looked at it, he licked his lips. I licked mine in reply. We leaned

closer, closer, dangerously close..

Then the oven timer dinged.

We immediately straightened, snapping away from each other. Nicholas turned, coughing into his hand.

I reached for the oven mitts and pulled the finished stuffed mushrooms from the oven.

With the tray safely on the counter, I couldn’t find the courage to look at him again.

He cleared his throat. “Nostalgia does tricky things to the mind.”

“It does,” I agreed, thankful for the safe retreat his words offered.

“I should go now.” He took a step, then paused. “Goodnight, Piper.”

“Goodnight.”

I didn’t move again until his footsteps disappeared from the kitchen. Even after he was gone, I needed a moment to get my heartbeat under control.

I returned to putting the finishing touches on my stuffed

storage.

what just

Charlotte and I were adding the finishing touches to the garden party dresses for me and Elva. She was sewing on the ruffled trim

your other maid

remembered. Though Charlotte had certainly opened up to me now, in the early days, she had seemed to only barely tolerate me. The overly–friendly

Charlotte said. “They let her go from the palace staff, but she was able to find another position in a noble household.”

exhaled in relief. I had worried that

it. It’s less stressful.” Charlotte

she is safe and well. I’ve been thinking

her, she seemed worried about you, though. It

of the palace

a smile. “And that’s what matters. With the support I do have, I can

any of these

ruined appetizers were nothing compared to the hardships I had endured in the

past.

I had a roof over my head, food for both Elva and me, and

those basic needs, which in the

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