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

met my gaze with a stern one of his own. His

in that

would mean…

this why Julian had kept from me the owner of the house he didn’t want me to know a royal was so directly involved?

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

whispered, for my

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

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

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shake him and demand answers. The other half wanted to

he was indeed dangerous. He was powerful enough to make

a place to sit, Terry,” the King said, looking out over the table.

choose my own seat,” Terry said.

said

many open seats to come toward me. He stopped just behind the chair

you to move over one seat, my dear? I

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