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.

sign 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

stomach. I knew what he was saying with that look. My thoughts had

could appear and disappear in an instant but Hawk, leader of the underground organization? After all, he had done similar when he'd rescued Jane

Joyce?" I asked. "Hasn't

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

Were the underground

were they expecting a war with the Bear People to do

"The war makes everything so

It cleared away from his face in the next instant, taking away some of the worry with it. "Don't

"But the Bear People...?"

Even if she is

wanted to believe that. I trusted Julian. If anyone could

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

was a lot to think over, to consider, and to plan out what