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

lifted his gaze to mine and I felt a pit open up in my stomach. I

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

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

Nicholas said. "If anything were to happen to my father, and then Julian and myself, Joyce would have legal claim

really didn't like that. Were the underground

were they expecting a war with the Bear People to do

arms around myself. "The war

It cleared away from his face in the next instant, taking away some

"But the Bear People...?"

if she is dead, Julian will find her bones

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

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

think over, to consider, and to plan out what