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."

doubled, and I regretted holding it back

And Nicholas both. They are down in the sitting room with your parents," I said. Susie's eyes went wide as saucers. "Mark

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

a little

does, that his arrival at your door might open the way. My presence was required for this. It is, after all, more likely they'd let me

"True."

who I

blushed a little. "I talk about you often.

grateful I was to be in her life! Though how much it hurt to hear she had such

to give you this." I held my palm out with

looked at it and

I told her. "He wants

closer to her, to inspect it. She touched it with only her

face, softening all of her features. Then, in the next, she

matter to me, Mark would be throwing his whole life away with this. He can't be Nicholas's Beta

to get it to work. If this is what you want, Susie,

the tears. She continued looking at the ring for

see

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

I couldn't help my smile. When she saw

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

*Susie..." her mom said.

Then his gaze

he said, the word

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

a deep bow. "Please allow me to

both went

daughter," Mark said. "I

know of her condition!" Susie's

was quicker. She touched her

do," Mark confirmed. "The baby is mine. And I would

this man," Nicholas said. "He is my Beta and a loyal man