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.

no discrepancy among the guard, who are vetted beyond the norm to be assigned to such a post. I don't doubt them.

pit open up in my stomach. I knew what he was saying

and disappear in an instant but Hawk, leader of the underground organization? After all, he had done similar

organization want with Joyce?" I asked. "Hasn't he already

father, and then Julian and myself,

the underground planning on hurting

with the Bear

arms around myself. "The war makes everything

the next instant, taking away some of the worry with it. "Don't worry about a

"But the Bear People...?"

lost princess. Even if she is dead, Julian

believe that. I trusted Julian. If anyone could find the lost princess, it was

about, I was beginning to feel overwhelmed. I could carry all the burdens, I would to help Nicholas. I wouldn't shrink under their

was a lot to think over, to consider, and