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.

missing uniforms, no discrepancy among the guard, who are vetted beyond the norm to be assigned to

in my stomach. I knew what he was saying with that look. My

of the underground organization? After all, he had

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

to happen to my father, and then Julian and myself, Joyce would have legal claim to the

Were the underground planning on hurting Nicholas

a war with the

my arms around myself. "The war

next instant, taking away some of

"But the Bear People...?"

searching for the lost princess. Even if she

Julian. If anyone could find

feel overwhelmed. I could carry all the burdens, I would to

a lot to think over, to consider, and to plan