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…”

throat went dry. “But?“”

the same night Nicholas was almost taken. It felt wrong to me,

dark jagged swirl that sliced mercilessly inside my chest. I had to voice an unhappy question. I felt guilty even thinking it, so I whispered it to Julian rather than saying it too loudly, “Could Joyce be working with the underground?”

a hard edge to

suspect him,

he said, and for a small moment, he

had no reply to that. He rendered me speechless.

quiet, Julian urged me into walking again, and

candidates in the dining room making the noise. Instead, it was two different camera crews trying to capture every angle of Nicholas and Olivia as they stood in the center of the hallway. A producer was holding a microphone in

couldn’t make out the question, but it made Nicholas dip into his reservoir of unpleasantly cold

it better than I did, because in the next instant, he called out, Nicholas! How funny

1. e. that you

every eye

looked at me.

hallway turned to look at Julian instead, and then,

to hide,

on my arm was fierce, like an

me straight you?

Olivia.

we were standing

hatching faces of cool indifference, while their

y heart ache