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 dry. “But?“”

what concerns me. He locked you out there the same night Nicholas was almost taken. It felt wrong to me, even then I felt something was off. That

a dark jagged swirl that sliced mercilessly inside my chest. I had to voice an unhappy question. I felt guilty even thinking it, so

to his gaze. “You should

do suspect him,

for a small moment, he sounded so very tired. “I suspect everyone.”

that.

quiet, Julian urged me into walking again, and we finally turned that corner into the

trying to capture every angle of Nicholas and Olivia as they stood in the center of the hallway. A producer

the question, but it made Nicholas dip into his reservoir of unpleasantly cold

in the next instant, he called

1. e. that you

every eye in

looked at

turned to look at

wanted to

my arm was fierce, like

led me

and Olivia.

standing directly

eerie hatching faces of cool

y heart ache