The Luna Choosing Game

After the confrontation with Mark, I expected to be approached by Nicholas, so I wasn’t shocked when he called me away from the dining room at lunchtime to speak with me privately.

He started walking away from the dining room and I fell in step beside him. Eventually, in an empty

hallway, he turned to face me. A frown was firm on his face.

Mark told me that you and Julian started investigating the underground organization again, despite my

explicit instruction not to.”

“That’s correct,” I said. Maybe I should have denied it. I knew Nicholas only had my best interest at

heart, but that didn’t mean I could roll over to his every whim. He didn’t know all the facts. Maybe it was

time I told him the full truth, I wasn’t sure.

My answer made Nicholas’s face even more severe. This, I imagined, was the face he used to look down those that opposed him politically. It would be intimidating, if I had even an inkling of fear against

him.

“You have to stop, Piper. You must give this up and let it go. You are endangering yourself. I cannot allow that.”

I shook my head. “It doesn’t matter if I’m in danger. It’s worth it, if it helps bring them down.”

tensed. “If you

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convince me otherwise, Nicholas, I’m sorry.”

sharp. “What you are doing endangers her as well.”

is already in trouble. Can’t you see

Closed it. Opened it again. “What do you mean?” The hardness in his face crumpled some

my own waist, offering myself as much

start. Maybe if he truly understood the depths of my fear, he would see my side of things. I doubted it – he’d always been a stickler for the rules – but there was always a chance

will it be before the underground organization comes

to me so that he was only a mere few inches away.

we’re under your roof? But what happens to us

our own?”

a way. I’ll

your own life. Can’t you see that exposing the organization is the only

rest of her

statements. I knew he meant

I had to crack his fantasy to

no matter how well–meaning

ago, when the organization targeted