The Luna Choosing Game

His gaze sent a pleasant shiver down my spine. Blushing slightly, I glanced away from him and toward the cameras instead. Their presence reminded me of where I was and what Julian had just asked me.

I cleared my throat. To Julian, I said, “You’ll have to wait and see.”

He laughed.

Ten minutes later, Julian held out his hand, “Will you dance with me, Piper?”

I knew he was up to something, but with the cameras watching, I couldn’t refuse.

I placed my hand in his. He closed his fingers around mine, and tugged me closer to the pianoforte.

Then he pulled me into his arms.

At the same time, Nicholas led Lilliana to dance as well. They held each other stiffly and at a

respectable distance. The moved with formal, stilted steps.

Julian placed my hand on his chest, and Nicholas nearly tripped over his own feet. Yet he immediately

righted himself and continued dancing.

as cutting as it had earlier been. “This

made it clear from the start that he didn’t like the idea of

supposed Nicholas’s reactions were still tethered to

at me did not seem like the glare of a man who was simply trying to protect me from his promiscuous

thought of something,” Julian said

Lilliana. Before I could truly react, Julian abruptly disappeared, so when I came

masterfully switched partners. Now he danced around

looking Lilliana.

down at me, and I, up at him. I thought

original partners.

arms went around my

had led Lilliana – and the cameras – mostly to the door.

want him to think that I was interested in Julian, so I told him, “If you

little. “You wouldn’t need to

costume or

heart pounded in

How could he be so sure?

I

hear what he might say, or if he

it, Piper,” he