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. “But?“”

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

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

edge to his

suspect

and for a small moment, he

that. He rendered me

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

trying to capture every angle of Nicholas and Olivia as they stood in the center of the

couldn’t make out the question, but it made Nicholas

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

1. e. that you

eye in

at

hallway turned to look at Julian instead, and

half wanted to hide,

arm was

me straight

Olivia.

crowd until we were standing directly

displeasure. It was eerie hatching faces of cool indifference, while their

y heart ache