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.

moment. I opened and closed my mouth like a

not wait for my reply. “You can’t have both brothers! If you are after Julian, you should stick with him and leave

not chasing anyone.” I lifted my hands now, palms forward in defense. “I’m not after any of

supposed to believe that.” She

“It’s true!”

the next elimination, Piper. Focus your efforts on Julian, who

wasn’t a threat to her so much as she was a threat to herself. Nicholas might say now that he will marry whoever the

partner.

lowered my hands and lifted my chin. “I am friends with Nicholas. That

with someone he actually likes and not someone who

the time.”

me for a moment, then threw her head back and laughed. “Piper, you

think he was going

making fun of me but she didn’t have to be

one marries for love.” She didn’t even look sad about it. She had simply just accepted it as

that should change, and not just for the sake of the princes, but for

harder than before. “You want to save us all, huh? Oh, Piper. You need to just accept this is how things are. This is how they’ve always been, and it’s how they always

accept that, and

are a riot,” Lilliana said, chuckling

the blink of an eye, she shifted from the haughty

to know that Nicholas had approached us from behind

Nicholas said. “I’ve never heard you

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

to be.”

Nothing I had said was a joke.

a small smile on his lips. Yet one look at me, and that smile dimmed into an expression of confusion. “I know it was probably a fool’s hope, but I always wanted more

was kind, to include me in that statement, when everyone in the whole kingdom

was common.

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