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.

of tampering with the lock," Nicholas 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

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

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

with Joyce?" I asked. "Hasn't

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

Were the underground planning on

were they expecting a war with the Bear

myself. "The war makes everything so

his face in the next instant,

"But the Bear People...?"

for the lost princess. Even if

Julian. If anyone could find the lost princess,

to feel overwhelmed. I could carry

lot to think over, to consider, and to