Chapter 0279

The King and Queen were sitting at their table, eating breakfast.

“Nicholas?” the King said when he saw me. “You look like hell.”

“I have reason.” I walked to him and showed him the footage on my phone.

The King watched it all with a furrow in his brow.

“Terry’s behavior last night was beyond inappropriate,” I said. “He made Piper, Susie, and many of the other girls uncomfortable.”

My mother scoffed. “He’s always been a flirt, Nicholas. You know that. I’m sure those girls are being oversensitive.”

“He tried to feel up Piper under the table,” I said, trying to keep my voice steady and calm. Losing my temper never worked with my parents.

“And you have footage of that?” the Luna asked.

No, I didn’t. None of the camera angles caught Terry’s movements under the table. I grit my teeth, holding in my anger.

“Piper said ”

“And we accept the word of a commoner over that of nobility?” the Luna asked.

I gripped the back of the chair I stood behind. Anything to keep me from throwing something across the room.

“There is merit to her concerns,” I said, gesturing to my cell phone still in the King’s hands. ” The footage shows – ”

“Piper is too sensitive. And this other girl, Susie, was it?” The Luna cut into her breakfast so hard her knife scraped across the plate. “She’s that quiet one, right? I imagine she’s much the same. A Luna would have to be able to reject men’s advances without becoming offended…”

I said, my voice lowering

a clatter. “Don’t

out a breath. To me, he said, “That is quite the

themselves. And

doubt. But when you caught them in the act, she had to pretend otherwise, lest she be accused of

chair under my hands began

your uncle,” the Luna said. “You are conspiring with that brat

the King said again,

fiery gaze back to her

that I need more than this to

I said. “This is only the

“Oh?”

produced the letter from Hawk to Terry. I passed

and read through it.

it say?” the

reading it, he passed it to my mother. She finished

voice, she said,

excuses can you make for him?” the King asked her. “You are letting

“But – ”

years to bring down the underground organization, with limited to no results. Terry’s involvement could be the very

deep within her eyes was a touch of heartbreak. To herself, in a whisper, she said, “It has to

out of his rooms to return to my own. I couldn’t wait to tell Piper

entered my

everything was fine, Nicholas won a very important and busy man. But the hurt war perditent,

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