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."

in my pocket near doubled, and I regretted

both. They are down in the sitting room with your parents," I

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

laughed a

drastic. Nicholas had a plan, as he always does, that his arrival at your door might open the way. My presence was required for this. It is, after

"True."

knew who I was..." I

a little. "I talk about you

be in her life! Though how much it hurt to hear she had such a hard time getting

told me to give you

at

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

held it up closer to her, to inspect it. She touched it with only her fingertips, treating it as a

all of her features. Then, in the next, she began to cry again.

parents will never go for it," she said. "And even if they did. Or even if that didn't matter to me, Mark would be throwing his whole life away with

told 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 have

She continued looking at the ring for

see

both headed for the doorway. With Susie leading, we

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

personal matter, Prince Nicholas, as I've consistently said "Susie's father was saying. He cut himself

*Susie..." her mom said.

her. Then his gaze dropped to her

said, the word overflowing with

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

said, dropping into a deep bow.

both

daughter," Mark said. "I cannot live without

of her condition!" Susie's

touched her husband's arm. "He

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

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