The Luna Choosing Game

Chapter 0307

Things were direr than even Charlotte had made it seem.

My stomach twisted into knots. The people’s accusations weren’t limited to singular nouns. They weren’t just talking about Terry and no one else.

The use of plural told me they meant the entire royal family, including Nicholas. This meant he was in grave danger. If the people turned on the royal family, if they thought to overthrow them, they would not stop with just the King.

Flashes of Nicholas trapped in a prison cell came through my mind. Or worse. Maybe they would kill him.

The dark thoughts took hold of my heart so strongly that I couldn’t remember where I had been headed. I only knew where I wanted to go now: to see Nicholas, to place my eyes on him. and know that he was safe.

I darted in the direction of his personal rooms. Along the way, I noticed the increased number of guards around the palace. At first, I chalked it up to the increase in the number of protestors. It made sense to increase the protection of the royal family when they were being threatened.

But then, as I came around the corner, I heard a set of voices, and recognized that these. guards were here for a more specific purpose.

princes, Nicholas and

this passageway, Sir,” said one of the guards. “It

one leads to the

Sir,” said the guard.

stepped into the room from which I heard the voices, and found Nicholas and Julian peering over a familiar set of maps and blueprints. We’d used those blueprints to

were scattered through the room. Some were disappearing into an opening in the middle of the wall. A bookcase had been shoved

first. “Ah, Piper. There you are. We

I asked.

eyes met mine, held

as if to compensate for Nicholas’s coldness. He didn’t have to do that. I knew I was the one to blame for the wall between Nicholas

He traced his finger over a secret passageway in

he asked. “We’re checking this one next. One by one, we’ll get through them

for the ones that aren’t

through his private documents, searching for his own personal

kept everything,” Nicholas said.