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?“”

It felt wrong to me, even then I felt something was off. That was

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?”

hard edge to his gaze. “You should be careful

suspect him, then?”

for a small moment, he sounded so

had no reply to that.

again, and we finally turned that corner

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

it made Nicholas dip into his reservoir of

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

1. e. that you

every eye in th

looked at

to look at Julian instead,

to hide, but

hold on my arm was fierce,

led me

Olivia. Both

we were standing

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

y heart ache