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

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 was why I was so insistent we check on

I felt guilty even thinking it, so I whispered it to Julian rather than saying it too loudly,

to his gaze. “You

do suspect

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

reply to that.

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

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

made

the next instant, he called out, Nicholas! How funny meeting you here!”

1. e. that you

eye in

at

to look at Julian

to hide,

hold on my arm was fierce, like an unrelenting vice.

led me straight

and Olivia.

until we were standing directly in

of cool indifference, while their eyes

y heart ache