The Luna Choosing Game

Chapter 0411

Chapter 0411

Veronica was still quiet.

I wished I could give her a hug, but I didn’t want to disturb her train of thought. She had personally asked me to come with her.

“I don’t need you to do anything,” she had said then. Her eyes had been downcast, like she was embarrassed to be asking for help. “But I would feel better if I knew you were there, supporting me.”

“I’ll always be supporting you,” I had said, thinking about what would happen when the competition was done and we all went our separate ways.

Coming here tonight was the absolute least I could do for her.

“I’m ready,” Veronica said now.

The rest of us waited in the observation room, as Veronica went alone through the door into the interrogation room.

Joyce glanced up as she entered. He seemed confused.

“What are you doing here?”

“Do you know who I am?” she asked.

“From the competition…” he said. He didn’t know her name.

“I’m Veronica,” she said. “And I was just like you. I was recruited into the underground organization from a very young age, and was raised to do their bidding.”

Joyce looked at her again in renewed interest. “How old were you?” he asked.

“Too young.”

Joyce dropped his gaze down to the table. “And you’re out now?”

save the world

you can just feed me these lines and my life will change?” He looks at Veronica again, and there’s something dark

to you,” Veronica said at the same tone and cadence,

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undisturbed by his insults.

a crime organization could be

don’t believe you,” Joyce said once, and then louder, “I don’t

is a way out of it for you, just like

himself horse,

went into the room. Veronica turned and left, returning to the

went toward her.

beginning.” She looked to Julian. “I’d like

Julian nodded. “Alright.”

didn’t understand. “He didn’t seem…

him lose his temper,” Julian said. I did. “He wouldn’t have done that if Veronica’s words didn’t touch a nerve. He has doubts. We’ll have to be

stepped closer to Veronica now too. “You shouldn’t overly trouble

this is healing some of the damage I’ve done to people in the

dared to

were leaving the dungeons, a shiver ran through me. Though modern, the facility did seem to

was instantly warmer and snuggled into it, knowing it had

“Thank you,” I whispered.

for you,”

and lowered my face closer to the collar of the jacket. There, I smelled Nicholas’s comforting,

under that… faint… was

Bridget.

andisturbed by his insults.

a traitor to a crime

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