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."

ring in my pocket near doubled, and I regretted

know. Mark. And Nicholas both. They are down in the sitting room with

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

laughed a

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 in to

"True."

knew who I was..."

blushed a little. "I talk about you often.

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

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

at it and

I told her. "He wants to ask

from my palm and held it up closer to her, to inspect it. She touched it with only

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

they did. Or even if that didn't matter to me, Mark would be throwing his whole life away with this. He can't be

get it to work. If this is what you want, Susie, you can't let it get away. You have to follow your

tears. She continued looking at the ring for another minute or two, before

want to see him," she

Susie leading, we

finger. I couldn't help my smile.

"Susie's father was

*Susie..." her mom said.

his

the word overflowing with obvious

moving closer to Susie's parents, closer

dropping into a deep bow. "Please allow

both went

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

don't know of her condition!"

mother was quicker. She touched her husband's arm. "He

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

is my Beta and