The Luna Choosing Game

Chapter 0401

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My b*dy moved on its own. Suddenly, I sprung into full action, grabbing Nicholas and pulling him closer. I put my mouth straight on his n*eck and started sucking in a mark. I didn’t know where her scent was but I had to remove it

now.

“Piper, ah…” Nicholas moaned. His fingers clenched where they sat at my waist.

When my mark was red enough, I placed another and another. All along the column of his n*eck.

Then I inhaled. Shit. That damned scent was still there.

I felt wild, like I was losing myself. A growl sounded from the back of my throat.

Nicholas finally seemed to notice. He removed his grip from my waist, to grip my hands instead. He pressed them down into the mat, then used that leverage to push himself upright, out of range of my eager mouth.

My growl was deeper, angrier. I needed to get my scent on him. I was desperate for it.

He still smelled like her.

“Piper, stop fighting me.” He was using his Alpha voice again. It was deep and low and shivered through me. I stilled at once. “Good.” The praise felt even better. He noticed that too. “Good girl.”

A soft whimper escaped the back of my throat.

“Piper, keep being a good girl for me and tell me what is going on.”

I licked my l*ps and tried to focus my thoughts. I still felt wild and scattered, but my Alpha mate was asking me a question and I could answer it.

“You smell like her…” I said. I didn’t recognize my own voice, it was so rough.

Nicholas blinked at me. “What? Who?”

“Bridget,” I spit out the name. “You are carrying her scent.

“I am…? Oh. She hugged me this morning.”

My growl became more prominent.

“”

“You spend so much time with her, that she has begun to scent you.”

Nicholas said, though he seemed less sure now than

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errant hug, or a stray touch that lingered too long at his wrist

means to claim

got the wrong idea,” Nicholas

voice

He

ly see

his honesty

asking that I believe him.

swallowed down my rising jealous enough to speak. “You have to admit that you would make a good match.” Tears rose in my eyes.

don’t have to admit anything,”

his l*ps to the tears that shed from my eyes. Kiss

neglecting you,” he

felt so damned needy to suggest

with me,”

“I miss you.”

“I’m so sorry, Piper. Please believe me when I tell you that you are the

that felt good to hear. I wanted to be the one he wanted most, but in the wake of that comfort and good feeling, came a wash of fresh sadness. I might have been the one Nicholas wanted the most, but we’d still never be

becoming Nicholas’s Luna. The royal family likely knew that. I wondered if her appearance was truly such a last minute stratagem and not something they had planned from the start.

was a sham to make sure that Nicholas ended

be sad.”

me like tomorrow will never come

do you one better,” he said and lowered his l*ps down to my n*eck. He placed his l*ps to

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b*dy shivered. I bucked up, into

he licked at the angry mark he

said, like he

since the Academy? Maybe even long

“Please,” I said.

my wrists. “Keep your hands

I nodded.

the hem of his shirt, and yanked it clean over his head. His chiseled chest was glistening with sweat. My mouth watered at

at mine. He plucked at my tank

of you. I want your hands right back where they were

I nodded.