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

with a stern one of his own. His mouth was a tight line. His eyes looked strained.

lived in that house?

would mean…

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

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

whispered, for my

been so overly friendly with Elva and me

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

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demand answers. The other half wanted

indeed dangerous. He was powerful enough to make me disappear if he

place to sit, Terry,” the King said, looking out

could choose my own seat,” Terry

course,” said the King.

come toward me. He stopped just behind the chair of the

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

seat between her and Julian, her chosen prince. With obvious