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

taken. It felt wrong to me, even then I felt something was off. That was why I was so insistent we

inside my chest. I had to voice an unhappy question. I felt guilty even thinking it, so I whispered it to Julian rather than saying it too loudly, “Could Joyce

looked at me. There was a hard edge to his

do suspect

moment, he sounded so

reply to that. He

into walking again, and

the candidates in 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 of the hallway. A producer was holding a microphone in Nicholas’s face and

but it made Nicholas dip into his reservoir of unpleasantly cold

the next instant, he called out, Nicholas! How

1. e. that you

eye in th

looked at me.

at Julian instead,

wanted to hide,

my arm was fierce, like an unrelenting vice.

me straight

and Olivia. Both

were standing directly in front of

eerie hatching faces of cool

y heart ache