The Luna Choosing Game

Chapter 0219

“I’ve told the guards everything I know,” Lilliana said. “They’ll be watching you. Joseph himself just assured me of it.”

I shook my head. I had no idea what she was up to this time, but I was tired of the schemes and lies. How many manipulative games would I have to endure during this competition? Every day, it felt like a new threat was emerging, oftentimes trivial, and I grew tired of dealing with it.

Especially when more pressing, life–threatening issues were just around the corner.

I had no patience for whatever new game Lilliana had concocted. Plus, when I looked at her, my anger spiked. I recognized the shade of lipstick she wore as the same that had marked Nicholas’s lips.

Nicholas had said it hadn’t meant anything. I wondered if the same was true for Lilliana…

“I don’t know what you are talking about,” I said.

“You can play dumb all you want,” Lilliana said. “We’ll let Joseph sort out all the truth. But no one is

buying your bullshit anymore, Piper.”

I blinked, surprised by her break of character. Since when did Lilliana swear?

As I watched her, open mouthed, she swiveled on her heel and stormed away. She pushed straight past

Susie, who had just started to emerge into the hallway.

“What was that about?” Susie asked me.

I didn’t exactly know how to answer, because truthfully I had no idea. “Same old drama,” I said, because

that at least, seemed to be the nature of it.

Yet even so, I felt a chill run up my spine. I felt like someone was watching me.

I glanced behind me quickly, but no one was there.

After last night, I had felt more on edge than ever before.

Was this feeling just my imagination?

That afternoon I met Nicholas in the gym for more self–defense exercises. We utilized the mats this

time, and took turns throwing each other down to the ground. I was thrown much more than I threw, but I felt like I was starting to get the hang of it a little at least.

my head. Joseph, as a traditionalist, already hated my presence in the palace. I knew he was always looking for ways to get

might conspire some type of false charge against me, to have me

it actually worked this time, and I was asked

meant to be grappling, but in that

mat.

hit the cushioned ground and a puff of breath

looking down, Nicholas crossed his arms. “You are

a lot on my mind,” I

to keep your head in the moment, Piper.

“Sorry,” I mumbled.

down and offered me his hand. When I

helped me to my

never have a natural advantage in a fight,”

my bra had gotten a bit twisted. Through my shirt, I grabbed

adjust.

constantly looking… for opportunities

up at him. He was staring at my chest,

breasts to readjust the

let go now. But I liked the way he

tank–top, pushing up my breasts placed much of my cleavage on more obvious display: the upper swells of my breasts, the deep valley between them. He might have even seen a slip of a

it escaped above the cup of

was openly gaping, with

Opportunities, he said.

was a perfect

breasts higher still, causing not one, but two nipples to pop free over the top of my bra and the

shut.

grabbing him as he had shown me, and throwing him down hard onto the mat. Unfortunately, the force of it also sent me off balance and I fell directly on top of him. I straddled his waist, my thighs on either side of his hips. My

the tie, and created a screen

like he couldn’t believe what

the sight of my

some movement in his pants, pressing up against my core. This position aroused

felt

a few times and

I wanted to grind my hips and make him

returned to my senses too. This wasn’t the time or the place

from him and bounced up onto

be created with a solid distraction,” I said, parroting something he

the training helped cool some of