The Luna Choosing Game

Chapter 0622

The butler showed me to Susie's room, and then quickly excused himself outside of her door. When he was gone, I knocked.

"Go away!" Susie called in a watery voice. She was crying.

I knocked more insistently as I pushed open the door.

*I said -* she started, cutting herself off she say me. "Piper?"

"Hi, Susie," I said.

"Oh, Piper!" She was sitting at her desk, the tears running down her cheeks. As I entered the room, closing the door behind me, she jumped from the chair and ran to me.

We shared a hug. Relief flooded through me.

I stepped back after a moment, to look her over. She didn't seem too worse for wear. Other than the crying, she didn't show any signs of abuse or neglect.

"What are you doing here?" Susie sniffed. "I'm sure word has gotten around by now."

*Rumors don't matter. Come back to palace."

*If you've heard the rumors, you know why I can't."

"Everyone will forget, the moment you appear. They'll all just think it's gossip and it won't matter," I say. "Since Jessica is the only other contender for Joyce, you wouldn't even have to face elimination."

*Piper," she sounded so sad. "I can't come. It's just not rumors. My parents... They know the truth about me."

*How could they?" I asked. She wasn't showing yet. Sure they might suspect, but to have real proof?

"I told them," Susie said.

I startled, speechless.

"I didn't want to lie anymore about any of it," Susie said. "I don't want to have to pretend to have feelings for Joyce, when the only one I really want is Mark."

near doubled, and I regretted holding it back even this

here, you know. Mark. And Nicholas both. They are down in the sitting room with your parents," I said. Susie's

don't think anything would have kept him away. If your parents wouldn't have let him inside, he would have scaled the

a little

at your door might open the way. My presence was required for this. It is, after

"True."

parents knew who

little. "I talk about you often. You were

Though how much it hurt to hear she had

pocket. "Mark told me to give you this." I held my

at it

it's overdue," I told her. "He wants

closer to her, to inspect it.

moment, pure awe covered her face, softening all of her features. Then, in the next, she began to

"And even if they did. Or even if that didn't matter to me, Mark would be throwing

her. "Nicholas will find a way to get it to work. If this is what you want, Susie, you can't let it get away. You

blinked away the tears. She continued looking at the

see him," she

for the doorway. With Susie leading, we didn't need the butler

onto her finger. I couldn't help my smile.

father was saying. He cut himself off when Susie and I returned to the

*Susie..." her mom said.

on Mark, and his on her. Then his gaze dropped to her hand, where she'd already put

said, the word

forward, moving closer to Susie's parents, closer than

deep bow. "Please

parents both

in love with your daughter," Mark said. "I cannot live without

know of her condition!" Susie's father

was quicker. She touched her husband's

Mark confirmed. "The baby is mine. And I would raise it as

can vouch for this man," Nicholas said. "He is my Beta and a loyal man besides. He will treat your