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.

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

Tiffany s

us to believe that! No

steal a woman away

smiling at her. He placed his elbow on the table and then his chin in his hand. “And you’ve played right into my

indulged him at once. “You have the most beautiful eyes. And your wit is unmatched.”

to encourage her. “Go on. Don’t stop.”

word and her face looked no different

me a vibe. Someone I knew she was telling me that Julian hadn’t been lying.

no reason to think that, really, other than a growing pit in my stomach, but it

on my mind.

But I

looking at me. “You might

of the table with my fingers. “Were you telling

course I was.” He turned, facing me.

I ”

that’s

enough to ask

your star sign and which of

laughed as