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.

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

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

of the underground organization? After all,

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

a prince," Nicholas said. "If anything were to happen to my father, and

I really didn't like that. Were the underground planning

the Bear People to do

my arms around myself. "The war makes everything so

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

"But the Bear People...?"

if she is dead, Julian will find her bones and

Julian. If anyone could find the lost

worry about, I was beginning to feel overwhelmed. I could carry all the burdens, I would to help Nicholas. I

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