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.

tampering with the lock," Nicholas said. "No missing uniforms, no discrepancy among the guard, who are vetted beyond the

pit open up in my stomach. I

but Hawk, leader of the underground organization? After all, he had done

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

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

like that. Were the underground planning on hurting Nicholas and

the Bear People to do the job

"The war makes everything so much

the next instant, taking away

"But the Bear People...?"

Even if she is dead, Julian will find her bones

to believe that. I trusted Julian. If anyone could find the

many things to worry about, I was beginning to feel overwhelmed. I could carry all the burdens,

to consider, and to plan