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

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.”

culminated into a dark 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

hard edge to his gaze. “You should be

do suspect him,

said, and for a small moment, he sounded so very tired. “I

reply to that. He

a moment’s more quiet, Julian urged me into walking again, and

of Nicholas and Olivia as they

but it made Nicholas dip into his reservoir of unpleasantly cold

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

1. e. that you

every eye

at

hallway turned to look at Julian

wanted to

arm was fierce,

led me

and Olivia.

we were standing directly in front

was eerie hatching faces of cool indifference, while their eyes burned

y heart ache