The Luna Choosing Game

Chapter 0300

I passed out from the intensity of the pleasure.

When I reawakened some time later, I was bundled up in Nicholas’s arms, resting against his chest. I was entirely surrounded with warmth, and contentment swirled within me. Never in my life had I felt so satisfied and safe.

Nicholas kissed the top of my head. “How are you?” He must have felt me rousing.

“I’m good,” I said with a soft sigh. “Great, even.”

He hummed. “I’m glad.” He sounded quite satisfied with himself. Honestly, he should.

I started to turn toward him. “You need to let me return the favor.”

His arms tightened around me, keeping me still. “Another time. This time was all about you.”

“But – ”

“Piper,” he said gently. “I’m fine. I promise.”

He was so reassuring, that I immediately relaxed. “Next time,” I said. “It’s about you.”

He kissed my cheek this time. “Whatever you want.”

We stayed together in his room until just before dawn, holding and dozing, and trading soft kisses. Then, after we dressed, Nicholas led me back toward my room. In the hallway just around the corner, where the guards couldn’t see, Nicholas pulled me into his arms again and soundly kissed me.

“Thank you for our night together,” I whispered.

his head. “You don’t have

He had satisfied me so

laughed a little, then kissed me again.

my teeth. Maybe it wasn’t in fashion to wait to have penetrative sex anymore, but I still wanted

tightly for a moment. “I know you want to wait for your true mate…”

another person, but

would never say so aloud but if I could so easily imagine a world where we were people of different circumstances. If we had met when we were both common or both nobles, maybe we could have mated

imagine a life with Nicholas beside me for the rest

problem. Instead, what divided us was simply our birthrights. Nicholas was a prince, mostly likely to be the

you for wanting to wait,” Nicholas said, his voice strained but earnest. “But in the meantime, I hope you will

have him, even knowing it would end in

started to hear the footsteps of servants coming to work, and we begrudgingly had

seemed, after everything that had happened with Terry, the royal family needed time to get their own house in order before they would start worrying about the contest

for long walks around the gardens. Or we played cards with Susie and Charlotte or Mark. We had tea parties and tag matches.

was coming down to the dining room for dinner, Julian

as his gaze dripped down to

wolf, I didn’t heal as fast as other shifters. So the line of love marks Nicholas had left the night before were still dotted along the column of my neck. I had tried to cover them with makeup but Julian was always so observant. His attention veered straight to them like he

Julian said. He smirked but it had a sharp edge.

hide my neck with my hair. But

stop my blush, I felt I had to

glad at least one of us is having

Julian had a playboy reputation, and

perhaps

teeth, and he looked positively sinful. No, I definitely hadn’t misjudged him. He was

at his scandalous look. “So go get a date. I’m not