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…”

advances,” I said, my voice lowering despite

clatter. “Don’t

she huffed out a breath. To me,

and ankles speak for themselves. And

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

hands began to splinter. “That is

uncle,” the Luna said. “You are conspiring

the King said again, more

lowered her fiery gaze back to her

said to me. “You must know that I need more than

all he has done,” I

“Oh?”

jacket pocket and produced the letter from Hawk to Terry. I passed it to him. My mother looked up from her breakfast again to track

and

it say?”

finished reading it, he passed it to my mother.

said, “This has to

make for him?” the King asked her. “You

“But – ”

no results. Terry’s involvement could be the very reason we’ve never been able to get

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

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

I entered my

everything was

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