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The Luna Choosing Game
By: Jane Above StoryOngoing
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Piper gave up her dream and served as waitress to raise her sister's abandoned baby.,She bumped into her prince EX, Nicholas, in the crazy Luna choosing game.Nicholas: How could you hide my little girl?!Piper: EXM? She's not yours!Nicholas: You had a child with someone else right after we broke up?!
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Working 14 straight hours at a restaurant was hard enough, but to do so while my daughter was sick, threatened to pull my heart out.
On top of worrying about the overflowing orders, my daughter's fever, I had to avoid the wandering hands of my boss.
“Just a minute, Piper,” he said, sliding up beside me. Before I could escape, he placed his hand on my butt. “I need to inspect this.”
His eyes were on the food, but his hand squeezed my bottom.
I snapped, “Move your hand, Boss. Or so help me, I will dump these plates straight onto your head.”
He grinned like I amused him. “You wouldn’t dare.”
He was right, and I hated that.
The current economy in the Werewolf Kingdom was bad for everyone. So many people were out on the streets, unable to support themselves.
Without this job, I’d likely be out there among them. As a single mom.
Boss turned into me. He slid his free hand around my waist and pulled me against him in a mockery of a hug. He used the closeness to openly stare down the front of my shirt.
“I have to take out the food.” I swallowed down the bile rising in my throat. “The customers are waiting.”
“Let them wait.” Boss licked his lips. His breath smelled like cigarettes.
I tilted my head away. “We’ll get complaints.”
He leaned into me, pressed his nose to the side of my neck, and inhaled.
I barely repressed a tremor of revulsion. My stomach flipped.
To my side, someone laughed. An older waitress plucked a roll of paper towels off the top shelf.
“You shouldn’t resist, honey,” she said. “Everyone knows you don’t have a man at home. Unless…” She laughed again, loud and cruel. “Were you hoping to be chosen as Queen of the Selection?”
Recently, the royal family announced that they were selecting potential brides for three princes. With updates regularly released over the news broadcasts, people flooded in to watch the televisions hanging in our restaurant.
As far as I could tell, everyone was invested in the Luna Choosing Game – except me.
Boss laughed too. Some spittle hit my cheek. “You are daydreaming if you think you’ve got a shot, wolf-less.” Roughly, he yanked me backwards so he could rub himself against the curve of my backside.
The twitch of interest in his pants nearly made me throw up.
He reached around me, hands gripping the shelves to my right and left, and boxed me in.
“I’ll give you three days to decide, Piper. Either you come to me at night or you’re fired.”
The rejection sat primed on my tongue. But he wasn’t done.
“Aren’t your daughter’s medical bills due next week? How tragic, if you couldn’t afford them.” He smiled as he spoke, enjoying his own cruelty.
All of the blood drained from my face. My daughter, Elva, had recently contracted werewolf pneumonia. I needed money for her treatments and her medicines. She still wasn’t recovered.
Boss moved away from me then, leaving me in a daze.
The rest of the shift was a blur.
After work, I returned home to my small two-bedroom apartment.
My roommate and best friend Anna stood in the doorway to the bedroom I shared with Elva.
“She had a mild fever, but it just broke,” Anna said.
“She’s okay now?” I couldn’t keep the worry from my voice.
“She is.”
I sank against the side of the counter. Exhaustion pulled at my muscles.
“Did something happen at work?” Anna asked. She’d been my friend a long time, so she probably already knew the answer just from looking at me.
I didn’t want to worry her, so I kept my explanation vague. “Boss acted weird again. But it’s nothing I can’t handle.”
“That bastard,” Anna cursed. She’d seen right through me. “You shouldn’t have to deal with his behavior. Heck, you shouldn't be treated like this at all!”
“Anna…”
“No, Piper. I’m tired of this. You were a top student at the Royal Academy. That has to mean something.”
It had meant something once, a long time ago.
“That’s not me, anymore.” Now I was just a wolf-less single woman, trying to support myself and my child.
I sighed.
Anna crossed her arms. “This is your sister’s fault. You never should have sacrificed yourself for that drug-addict and her abandoned baby. And your ex-boyfriend… Piper, you were dating a noble!”
I don't need to be reminded that Elva isn't my biological daughter. In my heart, she is. And I'm not sacrificing anything for her; she deserves everything.
This was a familiar argument between Anna and I. I knew she meant well, so I never got angry. I only felt more tired – worn down to my bones.
I tried to smile, but it was bitter. “You are forgetting that there was always an insurmountable class difference between him and me, even before my sacrifice. And once I lost my wolf… The gap was just too big.”
When we parted, Anna went to turn on the television, while I quickly checked in on Elva.
The darling girl was sleeping soundly. I tucked the blankets more snugly against her sides. After watching her steady breathing for a moment, I quietly made my way from the room.
In the living room, Anna had turned on the evening news. The scrawl at the bottom of the screen read, The Luna Selection: Latest Developments!
Any woman could be considered, from princess to peasant, but only three would marry the princes. From those three, only one would become Queen.
Watching me, Anna held the remote aloft, ready to flip channels. I knew she was excited about the selection. Everyone in the entire kingdom was.
I might have been too, if I actually allowed myself to dream anymore. But who had time for dreaming when life was as it was: work and sleep and work and bills.
I had no room for dreams in my life. I could only focus on survival.
Anna had the volume low, so as not to wake Elva. When the newscasters talked, I only heard every fourth or so word.
“The three princes… selection… first public appearance…”
“I was wondering how they would do this, since the selection is supposed to be a public spectacle,” Anna said. “I thought for a while they might hide the princes behind a curtain or something.”
The royal family were notoriously private. Only the King and Queen’s faces were well-known, and only because they were on all of our money.
“Piper,” Anna gasped. She pointed at the screen, which displayed new footage of the princes waving to a crowd. “Isn’t that…?”
I saw what she saw, and I couldn’t believe my eyes. My heart knew the truth though, suddenly jolting like it intended to leap straight from my chest.
I knew that smile.
Right there on the screen…
That prince in the line…
That was my ex-boyfriend.
Nicholas.
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The Luna Choosing Game Chapter 646
Instead, the Queen pulled me into a hug. It was uncomfortable and brief, but a hug none the less. From the Queen, this was a tremendous breach of decorum, and I froze, unsure how to react. Even Nathan, standing dutifully as his King’s side seemed shocked.“I have misjudged you dearly,” the Queen sai
Last Updated : 2024-08-01The Luna Choosing Game Chapter 645
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Last Updated : 2024-08-01The Luna Choosing Game Chapter 644
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Last Updated : 2024-07-27The Luna Choosing Game Chapter 643
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Last Updated : 2024-07-26The Luna Choosing Game Chapter 642
Slowly, my grief subsided for now, enough for me to look up at Nicholas and feel the relief of being reunited with my fiancé.My… mate.“I love you,” Nicholas said. “I’m sorry it took so long for me to reach you.”“How are you even here? It’s impossible for you to have found me this quickly?”Nichol
Last Updated : 2024-07-25The Luna Choosing Game Chapter 641
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Karyn Batchelor
I couldn’t wait to read more of this story each day. I absolutely loved the characters and storyline. So sad when it finished, I want to see what happens next, impatiently waiting for the next book. An absolute must read!!!!
Morgan Smith
Beautiful fictional work!!!
Angela
This is an awesome read. Never a book to keep my attention this long. Lots of good twists. My opinion, It abruptly ended due to nasty comments from readers to get on with the book and finish it. The chapters were slow to publish but it says ongoing when you started….great book and author.
Hannah
The ending was very abrupt and unsatisfying for the readers, the book started off strong, some say it dragged on but I enjoyed reading so much more than normal authors do on here, but we got almost no resolution other than a few paragraphs and a time skip of a year saying they were happy, *the end*
Toretta Augustus
Great story, but the long draw out is taking away from the excitement.
Shanice
Great read for sure but it’s only one chapter being dropped a day and it seems the conclusion is getting farther away. Can we please get more than a chapter a day?
Gurjot
When will this book end?
Chanelle Hill
although I have sworn this book off I still stupidly keep checking back. I only read the last chapter posted to see if the story is progressing. it's not. just another bad guy after Piper, as always. this story has lost its plot entirely. Shocker ...
Chanelle Hill
If you were loving this story line but got fed up with the staleness....go read Luna Battle The Game by Billiejo Priestly.
Chanelle Hill
I am deleting this book. I'm done with the spinless main characters and I'm done with Bridgett. we will never know what happened to the underground. They aren't even investigating anymore. no ones been sent home, no ones doing anything to move anything forward. they are all stagnant. Like this story
Bridget de la Querra
yup chapter 424 is a repeat of 418.
Bridget de la Querra
the last updated chapter is a repeat. really....
Rachael Omokhofe
This story was different, with potential. The author has made me lost interest. The story goes around in a circle. No update for days and when she finally updates, we get just a few paragraphs. There author has been deaf to all complaints. Please fix up. 5 stars cos otherwise the review is deleted
Chanelle Hill
This story started so strong. It's almost painful to read now. The world grueling comes to mind. Did the story really need another sketchy bad guy? Just dragging it on and on. I whole heartedly wanted to see how this story ended but apparently it doesn't end.
Bridget de la Querra
I am so frustrated. literally started reading this book 4 months ago, have spent a small fortune, and still no end. I don't mind long books, but the trickle of chapters is ridiculous. please author, at least communicate with your readers???