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."

of the ring in my pocket near doubled, and I

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

kept him away. If your parents wouldn't have let him inside, he would have scaled the walls and climbed

a little

were able to stop him before he did anything 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."

who I was..."

blushed a little. "I talk about

into another hug. How grateful I was to be in her life! Though how much it hurt

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

at it

overdue," I told her. "He wants to

inspect it. She touched

moment, pure awe covered her face, softening all of her features. Then, in the next, she began to cry again. "What's the matter?" I

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 this.

work. If this is what you want, Susie, you can't let it get

away the tears. She continued looking at the ring

want to see

we didn't need the butler

the way, Susie slid the ring onto her finger. I couldn't help my smile.

matter, Prince Nicholas, as I've consistently said "Susie's 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

word

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

dropping into a deep bow. "Please allow me

both

with your daughter," Mark said. "I cannot live

her condition!" Susie's father

quicker. She touched her husband's

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

vouch for this man," Nicholas said. "He is my Beta