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.

my chair, turning my full attention to

he met my gaze with a stern one of

in that

that would

me the owner of the house he

so. He had urged me not even to trust the King. Just how deeply did this organization

dangerous, Julian whispered, for my ears

He’d been so overly friendly with Elva and me already.

and I were the ones that had snooped outside of his home? That we had chased the car with

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shake him and demand answers. The other half

was royal and in the underground organization, then he was indeed dangerous. He was powerful enough to make me disappear if he

a place to sit, Terry,” the King said,

I could choose my own seat,”

course,” said the

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

to move over one seat, my dear? I

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