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 dry.

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

jagged swirl that sliced mercilessly inside my chest. I had to voice an unhappy question. I felt guilty even thinking it, so I whispered it to Julian rather than

There was a hard edge to his gaze. “You should be careful around him.”

suspect him, then?”

small moment, he sounded so very tired.

no reply to that. He rendered me speechless.

a moment’s more quiet, Julian urged me into walking again, and we finally turned that corner into the

noise. Instead, it was two different camera crews trying to capture every angle of Nicholas and

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

have heard it better than I did, because in the next instant, he called out, Nicholas! How funny meeting you here!”

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every eye in

at

to look at Julian instead, and then, in

half wanted to

hold on my arm was fierce, like

me

Olivia. Both

until we were standing directly

It was eerie hatching faces of

y heart ache