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.

the guard, who are vetted beyond the norm to be assigned to such a post. I don't doubt them. Instead, it is simply as if he vanished into thin

and I felt a pit open up in my stomach. I knew what he was saying with that look. My

Hawk, leader of the underground organization? After all, he had done similar when he'd rescued Jane from her fall off the

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

my father, and then Julian and myself, Joyce would have legal claim to the

I really didn't like that. Were the

they expecting a war with the

wrapped my arms around myself. "The war makes everything

instant, taking away some of

"But the Bear People...?"

already investigating, searching for the lost princess. Even if she is dead, Julian will find her bones and return

trusted Julian. If anyone could find

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

to consider, and to plan out what to