The Luna Choosing Game

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…”

my voice lowering despite my

Luna lowered her cutlery abruptly, making a clatter. “Don’t you dare bring

a breath. To me, he said, “That is quite the accusation, Nicholas. Do you have

themselves. And I saw for myself

her gaze. “It was consensual, no doubt. But when you caught them in the act, she

under my hands began to splinter. “That

the Luna said. “You are conspiring with that

the King said again,

her fiery gaze back to her

I need more than this

isn’t all he has done,” I said. “This is only

“Oh?”

Hawk to Terry. I passed it to him. My

letter and read through it.

it say?”

had finished reading it, he passed

a panicked voice, she said, “This

him?” the King asked her. “You are letting your love for him blind you, my dear

“But – ”

have been trying for years to bring down the underground organization, with limited to no results. Terry’s involvement could be the very reason we’ve never been able to

mother fell silent. Defiance shown on her face, but deep within her eyes was a touch of heartbreak. To herself, in a

I rushed out of his rooms to return to my own.

when I entered my bedroom, Piper was

see, with bol nowhere wight, & Ball rejected adamanty Sought against the feeling, melting myself everything was