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

locked you out there the same night Nicholas was almost taken. It

had to voice an unhappy question. I felt guilty even thinking it, so I whispered it to Julian rather than saying

hard edge to his gaze.

suspect him, then?”

said, and for a small moment, he sounded so very tired.

to that.

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

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 Nicholas’s face and asking

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

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

1. e. that you

every eye in

looked at me.

to look at Julian instead,

to

my arm was fierce, like an unrelenting vice.

me

Olivia.

we were standing directly

eerie hatching faces of cool indifference, while their

y heart ache