The Luna Choosing Game

Chapter 0602

Nicholas, meanwhile, looked down and to the side. He wouldn't meet my gaze even as I walked nearer to him.

"Nick?" I prompted, fear weighing heavy on my heart.

*Unfortunately, that isn't all of the bad news I have to share," he said.

I braced myself. "What else?"

*Joyce has somehow escaped."

I gasped, shocked. How could that be? The youngest prince had been given the nicest prison cell I had ever seen in my life, but it was still a prison cell, buried deep under the palace grounds. This place is crawling with guards. How in the world would he escape?

And why would he want to? Veronica had been working with him, helping him understand the depths of his brainwashing. Had he reversed to his previous thinking in Veronica's absence?

Oh, God. Veronica was going to be devastated. She'd been working so hard with him. She saw part of herself in him, and sought to save them both. She would undoubtedly see this as her own failing.

said. "No missing uniforms, no discrepancy among the guard, who are vetted beyond the norm to be assigned to such a post. I don't doubt them. Instead, it is

his gaze to mine and I felt a pit open up in my stomach. I knew what he was saying with that

else could appear and disappear in an instant but Hawk, leader of the underground organization? After all, he

underground organization want with Joyce?" I

is a prince," Nicholas said. "If anything were to happen to my father, and then Julian and myself, Joyce would have

Were the

a war with the Bear People

myself. "The war makes everything so much

surprised. It cleared away from his face in the next instant, taking away some of the worry with it. "Don't

"But the Bear People...?"

Even if she is dead, Julian

to believe that. I trusted Julian. If anyone could find the lost

many things to worry about, I was beginning to feel overwhelmed. I could carry all

it was a lot to think over, to consider, and to plan out what