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.

swiveled in my chair, turning my full attention to

with a stern one of

in that house?

would mean…

Julian had kept from me the owner of the house he didn’t want me to know a royal

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

dangerous, Julian whispered, for my

in my chair, suddenly rigid. He’d been so

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

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to shake him and demand answers. The

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

place to sit, Terry,” the King said,

my own seat,” Terry

said the

walked by many open seats to come toward me. He stopped just behind the chair of the girl next

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

smile wavered but she could say no. This would be an additional seat between her and Julian, her chosen prince. With obvious