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

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?”

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

do suspect him, then?”

he sounded so very tired. “I suspect everyone.”

had no reply to that. He rendered me speechless.

walking again, and we finally turned that corner into the louder hallway.

to capture every angle of Nicholas and

it made Nicholas

in the next instant, he called out, Nicholas! How funny

1. e. that you

eye

looked at me.

look at

wanted to hide, but

arm was fierce, like

led me straight

Olivia.

crowd until we were standing directly in front

hatching faces of

y heart ache