The Luna Choosing Game

Chapter 0357

“Then, what?”

He glanced at me. Slowly, he stopped walking. We were alone in the hallway though there was talking up ahead. Around the corner was the dining room. Some of the girls must have gone down to lunch early.

“Joyce called you out to that balcony,” Julian said. “He said it was because you are too

reckless, but when has he ever cared about something like that before or since. You aren’t one of his selected candidates, and he’s never taken an interest in any of Nicholas’s or my relationships before.”

“You can’t think… he had ulterior motives?” I asked.

“I don’t know,” Julian admitted quickly. “It does seem unlikely. Joyce has never been rebellious. He’s always done just enough to stay within the rules our parents set for him. I suppose he could have seen, as I did, how fond Nicholas is of you, and wanted to step in, but…”

went

was almost taken. It felt wrong to me,

felt guilty even thinking it, so I whispered it to Julian rather than saying it too

at me. There was a hard edge to his gaze. “You should be careful around

do suspect him,

he sounded so very tired. “I

reply to that.

again, and we finally turned that corner into the

trying to capture every angle of Nicholas and Olivia as they stood in the

the chaos, I couldn’t make out the question, but it made Nicholas dip

might have heard it better than I did, because in the

1. e. that you

eye

looked at me.

hallway turned to look at Julian instead, and then,

to hide, but Julia..

my arm was fierce, like an unrelenting

led me straight you?

and Olivia.

we were standing directly in

displeasure. It was eerie hatching faces of cool indifference, while

y heart ache