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

even if I didn’t know how,

competition. I was just a pawn

said,

smiled. Into the microphone, he announced,

Most of the girls

date will be tomorrow,” he said, no longer speaking to me, but to the waiting

stood. His face was an emotionless mask, but his golden

stared straight

I

that this

for the sake of

dismissing Julian. I

didn’t need an explanation

anymore

fierce, hurt gaze had triggered something inside of me, like a

to

like that

look had dimmed. Now he

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

meanwhile, were positively charmed by Julian and

could not stop telling me how

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