The Luna Choosing Game

Chapter 167

I followed Lilliana further into the gardens to a small rod–iron table with two chairs. Lilliana motioned for

me to sit and then sat in the opposite chair.

“I’m glad we could finally have a chance to talk like this,” Lilliana said. She rested both hands on top of

the table.

I’mirrored her for a moment, but it felt unnatural having my hands lifted so high. I lowered them into my

lap instead.

“What was it you wanted to

talk to

me about?” Nervousness prickled at my skin. While it wasn’t unusual for the candidates to talk to each other, this still felt like a special event. Lilliana had called me out in front of Nicholas himself. She very nearly broke character to do it.

She gave me a sour kind of look. The way a disappointed principal would make to a rowdy student in. their charge. “Prince Nicholas. I want to ask you to please leave him alone. You are a distraction to him.”

we are friends.”

“I’m not doing anything to bother him, or at least, not trying to. But we

Nicholas had come to my rescue more than once now. And somehow when I needed things or support, Nicholas was always around to help. But that’s what friends did.

Lilliana narrowed her eyes. It was unusual for her to show any emotion. Tiny alarm bells started sounding in my head.

“What is your problem, Piper?” she snapped, voice suddenly much sharper than it had been before. Her narrowed gaze had become a fully blown glare.

opened and closed my mouth like a fish.

If you are after Julian, you should stick with

now, palms forward in

anyone is supposed to believe that.” She crossed

“It’s true!”

them. They won’t both pick you in the next elimination, Piper. Focus

failed to understand was that I wasn’t a threat to her so much as she was a threat to herself. Nicholas might say now that he will

deserved a partner. Not a

chin. “I am friends with Nicholas. That is all. But because I am friends

him, I want him to be with someone he actually likes and not someone who just agrees with

the time.”

threw her head

What did you think he was going to marry for love? Cute.”

fun of me but she didn’t have to be so blasé about it.

didn’t even look sad about it. She had simply just accepted

change, and not just for the sake

need to just accept this is how things are. This

refuse to accept that, and you should too.”

a riot,” Lilliana said, chuckling again.

eye, she shifted from the

know that Nicholas had approached us

quite the joke,” Nicholas said. “I’ve never

her hand over her mouth and cleared her throat. “She can be quite

to be.”

Nothing I had said was a

Yet one look at me, and that smile dimmed into an expression of

to include me in that statement, when everyone in

was common.

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