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 dry.

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

inside my chest. I had to voice an unhappy question. I felt guilty even thinking it, so I

hard edge to his gaze. “You should

do suspect him, then?”

he said, and for a small moment, he

reply to that. He rendered me speechless.

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

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

question, but it made Nicholas dip into

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

1. e. that you

eye in

at me.

at Julian instead, and

half wanted to hide, but

arm was

me straight

and Olivia. Both

until we were standing directly in front of

was eerie hatching faces of

y heart ache