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.

chair, turning my full attention to Julian.

heard. I knew because his usual smirk was missing. Instead, he met my gaze with a stern one of his own. His mouth was a tight line. His

in

that would

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 so

so. He had urged me not even to trust the

whispered, for my ears only.

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

snooped outside of his home? That we had chased the car with the person who had stolen my wolf?

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to shake him and demand answers. The other half wanted

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

place to sit, Terry,” the

my own seat,” Terry

course,” said

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

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

This would be an additional seat between her and Julian, her chosen prince. With obvious reluctance, she stood and moved