The Luna Choosing Game

“Don’t be coy, now, Your Majesty,” Terry said with an easy smile. “You should tell the girls that I will be helping to judge the Second Ball.”

The King nodded. “It is as he says.

The candidates began to chatter. If Terry was to be a judge, then it would be beneficial to eam his good favor.

Yet I still

direction.

ouldn’t entirely dismiss the creeping feeling that tickled my skin whenever he glanced in my

“Why do you suppose he is staying in the palace when he lives so near?” whispered the girl beside me. “He lives nearby?” I asked. That was the first I had heard of it, though I supposed it made sense

“Yes,” the girl said. “He stays in the large mansion up the road. It’s on the same land as the palace. I believe it’s on the other side of the forest.

My blood ran cold. I had been just outside the mansion on the other side of the forest.

That was the place where I had felt my wolf.

turning my

met my gaze with a stern one

in that house?

that would

know something about the underground organization? Was this why Julian had kept from me the owner of the house he didn’t want me to know a royal was

it could be so. He had urged me not even to trust the King.

for my ears only.

snapped upright in my chair, suddenly rigid. He’d been so overly friendly

of his home? That we had chased the car with the person who had

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of me wanted to shake him and demand answers. The other

was royal and in the underground organization, then he was indeed dangerous. He was powerful enough to make me disappear if he wanted, and no one would even

sit, Terry,” the King said, looking out over

could choose my own seat,” Terry said.

course,” said

down to the floor as Terry walked by many open seats to come toward me. He stopped just behind the chair of

suppose I could convince you to move over one seat, my dear? I promise it will only be for as long

she could say no. This would be an additional seat between her and Julian, her