The Luna Choosing Game

Chapter 55

I stared at Julian, disbelieving my ears. Did he really just ask me for a solo date?

Yet everyone in the whole ballroom was looking at us. Julian still held the microphone up to his mouth.

This was definitely happening. It wasn’t a dream.

Which meant that Julian was up to something.

“Why?” I asked, before I could think better of it.

A few girls around me gasped. Only then did I realize my mistake and covered my mouth.

Julian also looked shocked, his eyes going wide for a moment. But then, just as quickly, he burst out

laughing.

His good humor seemed to erase the surprise of the other onlookers. Everyone seemed to think I had

been telling a joke.

With the microphone lowered, he said to me, “I insist this request is genuine, Piper.”

I didn’t believe him.

Julian always played the angles. Asking me on a date had to be some kind of move for his benefit, but I

couldn’t begin to figure out how. I’d only scratched the surface of the inner politics of the royal family.

for my answer.

even if I didn’t know how,

was just a

said, “I

Into the microphone, he announced, “She

Most of the girls

said, no longer speaking to me, but

dance floor, Nicholas stood. His face

he stared straight

I

him that this didn’t mean anything. Julian was only trying to stir

again, likely just for the sake

without publicly dismissing

an explanation

anymore

something inside of me, like

me screamed to soothe

meant nothing like

I looked at Nicholas now, that look had dimmed. Now he seemed

turned away from me and, even an hour later, had not sought me

by Julian and his

could not stop

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