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. Everyone

didn’t know how, but

a competition. I was just a pawn in

said, “I

the microphone, he announced, “She

of the

will be tomorrow,” he said, no longer speaking to me,

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

as he stared

I

I wanted to tell him that this

for

dismissing Julian.

that Nicholas didn’t need an

anymore

inside

me screamed to soothe away his

like that

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

turned away from me and, even an hour

by Julian and his antics. Even

stop telling me how

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