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."

my pocket near doubled, and I regretted holding it

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

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

laughed a

arrival at your door might open the way. My presence was required for this. It is, after all, more likely they'd let me in to see you than some

"True."

parents knew who I was..."

about you often. You were my

pulled her into another hug. How grateful I was to be in her life! Though how much it hurt to hear she had such a hard time getting friends. She was so sweet and kind, she deserved so many more than

tug the ring from my pocket. "Mark told me to give you this." I held my palm out

at it and

I told her. "He

held it up closer to her, to inspect it.

all of her features. Then, in the next, she began to cry again. "What's the matter?" I asked her, stepping

even if that didn't matter to

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.

the

see him," she

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

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

father was saying. He cut

*Susie..." her mom said.

on Mark, and his on her. Then his

word overflowing with obvious

forward, moving closer to Susie's

into a deep bow. "Please allow me to

both went wide-eyed.

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

of her condition!"

She touched her husband's arm.

would raise it as my

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