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.

waited for my answer.

didn’t know how, but

this was a competition. I was just a pawn in a

I said,

smiled. Into the microphone, he announced, “She said

Most of the girls clapped

he said, no longer speaking to

stood. His face

stared straight

I

ached. I wanted to tell him that this didn’t mean anything. Julian was

just for the sake

couldn’t reach him without publicly dismissing Julian. I had

didn’t need an

anymore

inside of me, like a

screamed to

meant nothing like

Nicholas now, that look had dimmed.

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

were positively charmed by Julian and his antics.

me, they could not stop telling me how

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