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.

my answer.

I didn’t know how, but I couldn’t exactly turn him down. He was a

a competition. I was just a

said,

the microphone, he announced, “She said

cheered. Most of the girls

said, no longer speaking to me,

Nicholas stood. His face was an emotionless

stared

I

tell him that this didn’t

just for the sake

couldn’t reach him without publicly dismissing Julian. I

didn’t need an explanation

anymore

fierce, hurt gaze had triggered something inside of me,

me screamed to soothe away his

meant nothing like

looked at Nicholas now, that look

turned away from me and, even an hour later, had

Julian and his antics. Even after

not stop

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