The Luna Choosing Game

“Piper?” Julian was waiting for my question.

“Okay.” I prepared myself with a deep inhale. Then I asked, “Why did you and Prince Nicholas never

seem to get along?”

Julian’s smile didn’t as much as twitch, yet I still felt a tension seep into the room. Maybe it was my fault. I knew I was asking a loaded question, and with it hanging now in the air, I felt the true weight of it.

I very nearly took it back. I asked too much, got too personal. I should take it back.

Or he could just lie. I wanted him to, if that meant this terrible moment would end.

He looked at me, and then he said, “Nicholas stole my first love. Her name was Bridget.”

My thoughts fizzled out. Nicholas. stole.. Julian’s love? That seemed so impossible! Nicholas dated

some before me, I remembered him talking about it some. But he had always said his previous

relationships had never included anything serious.

I didn’t think he would lie to me about that.

it been different from Julian’s perspective? Or was he lying to me

Tiffany s

that! No one,

able to steal a woman away

then his chin in his

once. “You have the most beautiful eyes. And your

continued to encourage her. “Go on.

didn’t say a word and her

me a vibe. Someone I knew she was telling

that, really, other than a growing pit in my stomach, but it was what |

on my mind.

I stayed

without looking at me. “You

the table with my fingers.

turned, facing me. “Blue is my

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that’s not what

important enough to ask that question

also asked your star sign and which of

laughed as he