The Luna Choosing Game

Love has no place in royalty.” Nicholas tilted his head down and lowered his gaze. “I will be forced to

marry the best Luna candidate in the Choosing Game. I can only hope that, at the very least, perhaps a

sense of friendship will blossom later.”

“And Lilliana is the best?” I asked.

He sighed. “She is the one my father has chosen for now. It could change over the course of the

competition. His whims can be fickle. But what would it matter? They are more or less all the same.”

My heart broke at his words. Hearing this usually confident man so… complacent – so accepting of such

an unwelcomed fate – tugged at my emotions.

1 want children,” he continued. “I believe that my life will be fulfilled enough with family, even if I can’t be

with a partner I would have truly wished for.”

I shook my head, refusing to accept it. “No one should turn away from their heart so fully.”

“I don’t have any choice, Piper.”

I took him by the arm and shook him. He was well–muscled, he only wobbled a bit and likely only to

appease me.

When you are King, you

be married to be

and deflated a bit. But it still couldn’t be hopeless. There had to be some way for Nicholas

may be.

contain it if I knew Nicholas

match in both generosity, spirit,

here truly seemed to fit those qualifications. Except perhaps Susie,

with her own

don’t have any

“I just can’t

sighed. “You’ve always

care about

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eyes seemed to sparkle. He was unbelievably handsome. I could easily

help you find someone,” I said. One of these girls had to be alright, somewhere under the

It was sad, and

to be

brow pulled together. “Because the King chose her? Surely anyone

gaze lingered on me a beat longer in

dropped it away.

too near us. I glanced up to see Lilliana