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

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 eyes looked

lived in

that would

the owner of the house he didn’t want me to know a

had always hinted it could be so. He had urged me not even to trust the King. Just how deeply did this organization go?

dangerous, Julian whispered, for my ears only.

rigid. He’d been so overly

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

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of me wanted to shake him and demand answers. The other

indeed dangerous. He was powerful enough to make me disappear if he wanted, and no one would even know

the King said, looking out over

my own

course,” said

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

dear? I promise it will only be for as long as I stay.”

and Julian, her chosen prince. With obvious reluctance, she stood and moved to the next seat. 1