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.

touches on my stuffed mushrooms and preparing them

storage.

about what

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

have news,” Charlotte said, “about your other maid from the early days

certainly opened up to me now, in the early days, she had seemed to only barely tolerate me. The overly–friendly one had helped me feel more

staff, but she was able to

worried that she was trapped

stressful.” Charlotte

hear she is safe and well. I’ve been thinking

I spoke to her, she seemed worried

the palace might be against you”

a smile. “And that’s what matters. With the

any of

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

past.

for both Elva and me, and proper medical

had to endure was secondary to those basic needs, which in the past had either been

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