The Luna Choosing Game

It wasn’t that I didn’t believe Mark when he had told me that Julian had left the palace and hadn’t been

seen since the morning, but I still had to snoop around some to be sure. I needed to talk to him so badly, t

couldn’t just sit around and wait for him to return.

I asked some of the servants and the more–friendly of the guards. But each person had the same story,

more or less. No one had seen Julian or his Beta Brian since the morning Julian and I had talk to Williams.

“It’s not unusual for him to disappear,” said one of the servants. “Prince Julian is a bit rebellious.

Sometimes he would leave the palace for days at a time only to return with no explanation. No one’s ever

really sure about that one.”

That didn’t make me feel at all better. He would disappear for a few days? Surely he would know this time about the elimination ceremony. He wouldn’t leave me high and dry while he was off doing

foolish, would he?

was a façade he put on. He took plenty of

seriously.

Like our investigation.

want to admit to myself that I was worried about him. Nicholas had been right about one thing: investigating the underground organization was

but I didn’t want to see him harmed.

he had simply run off with some random girl for a while, being irresponsible

he wasn’t here now, so I couldn’t speak with him about securing my spot in the elimination. I could only hope that he would return in

evening, a brief meetup was arranged in one of the sitting rooms. Since Julian was missing, only Nicholas and Joyce attended. The girls fully surrounded Nicholas, while Joyce had only two or three girls vying for his

looking away. This was fine with me. I didn’t want to speak to him either. The presence of his emotionless mask hurt though, just a tiny bit. It seemed like he was treating me just

what he had done earlier, too? He hadn’t spoken to

Fine Perfect.

of the girls near me, who had tried to get closer to Nicholas but was shoved away by the group

it,” said another. “At this rate, we might as well see ourselves out. I

Nicholas knows my name.”