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 dry.

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

unhappy question. I felt guilty even thinking it, so I whispered

at me. There was a hard edge to his gaze.

suspect him,

moment, he sounded so very tired.

reply to that.

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

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

make out the question, but it made Nicholas dip into his reservoir of unpleasantly cold princely faces.

better than I did, because in the next instant, he

1. e. that you

eye

at me.

to look at Julian instead, and then,

wanted to

my arm was fierce, like an unrelenting

led me

and Olivia. Both

crowd until we were standing directly in

eerie hatching faces of cool

y heart ache