The Luna Choosing Game

Chapter 0305

“It’s not a fault to be dependable,” I said.

“It is if it makes you immovable. You have to be more willing to be wrong.”

I closed my mouth and glared at him. As usual, my sharp looks seemed to bounce right off of him without taking hold.

“Come on,” Julian began walking. He didn’t look back, expecting me to fall in line behind. him. Damn him, I needed to, for Piper’s sake, so I did. “We can’t keep our dear uncle waiting.”

Together, Julian and I walked out of the palace and toward the guard barracks. In the basement beneath their facility was a type of prison. Julian jokingly called it, ‘the dungeon,‘ though that title wasn’t far from the truth.

It had been built long ago and though lighting and plumbing had been added later, it still maintained a certain level of castle dungeon aesthetic: thick stone walls, iron bars, chains on the walls. The interrogation rooms were once torture rooms, though no torture took place now.

I was privy to

a special cell at the end of the long, narrow hall. His cell was dimly lit, with only a bulb light on the ceiling in the middle of the stone room. Terry’s hands

seen the man in such a state

me,” Terry said, distain dripping from his voice like poison. “What the hell more could you possibly want

off Julian much faster

Jane,” Julian said. “Before Piper gets hurt.”

for her head, did she? I imagined she

said now, adding an

glanced at me incredulously, and then laughed – loud and hard and mocking.

so funny?” Julian asked sharply. He was losing his patience too, it seemed.

laugh ebbed, though the mockery remained in the patronizing lilt of his tone. “She is higher up in the underground organization

me. Jane

his admittance had been rather recent. More recent than Jane, from what Piper had previously indicated.