The Luna Choosing Game

Chapter 0263

Nicholas’s mouth was hot on mine. His arms wrapped around my waist, holding me closely. I clutched at his shoulders, early accepting his kisses, until the need for air forced us apart.

He rested his forehead against mine. “You have to change.”

“Nick,” I said. He was being ridiculous. “This dress is not revealing.”

“You look so sexy in it. I can’t stand the thought of Terry seeing you like this.”

I smiled a little. This dress was not flattering on me. I knew that. I looked okay, but out of fashion. I’d worn more revealing clothes before.

I imagined a big part of Nicholas’s trouble was that he was attracted to me in anything. “You’d probably be jealous even if I wore a potato sack.”

He didn’t argue. “I don’t like the way Terry looks at you.” His arms squeezed me closer. “Why don’t you stay here, after all. Stay with Elva. Julian and I can snoop around Terry’s mansion. You don’t need to endanger yourself.”

I shook my head. “You know I can’t do that. Even if I wanted to. I had such a poor showing in the last event, that I can’t risk botching another. I need attend and do the best I can.”

“Terry won’t make it easy on you.‘

“I know that,” I said. “But I don’t have any other choice.”

Nicholas frowned deeply but he made no further remarks. Instead, he stepped back from me and turned on the lights to the garage. Taking my hand, he led me through the various fancy cars until we reached a black sedan with tinted windows.

He opened the passenger door and helped me inside. Then he went around to the driver’s side. The seats were soft leather, the console black and impeccably clean. When Nicholas turned the key, the car started with a confident purr.

put the car into drive and carefully navigated out of

nerves began to prickle

at me, likely seeing my tense posture and the way I couldn’t sit

on the road at all. The other cars were long gone and no one else seemed to use this road this time of night. The sun had set, and the road

trying to collect my thoughts. Yes, I was a lamb headed into the lion’s den. But Nicholas and Julian would be there. And Susie and the

like the type that would be all that bothered what others thought of him or his actions. He had the

from the way Nicholas’s hands choked the steering wheel, his knuckles white.

road on either side of us. Nicholas lifted his foot off the gas. Slowly, he pulled onto the side of the road, where a dirt road seemed to lead to nowhere. He put the car into park.

“Nicholas?”

gaze. I knew what it was because I felt it

at once, leaning toward him. He leaned too, and

space between us. But our need to hold each other overcame any obstacle. Nicholas buried his fingers into my hair. I clawed at

that I wouldn’t be able to tell where he ended and

finally feel safe again.

true. Somehow, I would have to

I held Nicholas

our mouths found each other’s. He licked his way past the seam of my lips. I opened willingly for his greedy

our hands holding each other closer, I could almost forget about what was going to happen tonight. I could find

soft–hearted for. Nicholas and I couldn’t be together long term, but for now, like this, nothing mattered but he and I and the pursuit of the

breathed against my lips, my name twisted

he was frightened too, or concerned, or jealous, or all three. So I pressed my lips back to his and worked on muddling his