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

out there the same night Nicholas was almost taken. It felt wrong to me, even then

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?”

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

do suspect him,

he sounded so very tired.

to that. He rendered

into walking again, and we finally turned that corner into

capture every angle of Nicholas and Olivia as they stood in the center of the hallway. A producer was holding a microphone

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

because in the next instant,

1. e. that you

eye in

at me.

to look at Julian instead, and then,

half wanted to hide, but

was fierce,

me straight

and Olivia.

we were standing directly

It was eerie hatching faces of cool indifference, while their eyes burned

y heart ache