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…”

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is what concerns 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 Nicholas.”

question. I felt guilty even thinking it, so I whispered it to Julian rather than saying it too loudly, “Could Joyce be working

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

suspect him, then?”

he sounded

that. He rendered me

into walking again, and we finally turned that corner into the

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 the hallway. A producer was holding

make out the question, but it made Nicholas dip into his reservoir

the next instant, he called out, Nicholas!

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every eye in th

at

at

wanted to hide,

on my arm was fierce, like an

led me straight you?

Olivia.

crowd until we were standing directly in

eerie hatching faces of cool indifference,

y heart ache