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

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

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 to Julian rather than saying

There was a hard edge to his gaze. “You

do suspect him,

he sounded so very tired. “I

to that. He rendered

again, and we finally turned that

it was two different camera crews trying to capture every angle of Nicholas and Olivia as they stood

the question, but it made Nicholas dip

did, because in the next instant, he called out, Nicholas! How funny

1. e. that you

eye

looked at

turned to look at Julian instead, and then,

wanted to

my arm was fierce, like an unrelenting vice.

me straight you?

and Olivia.

until we were standing

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

y heart ache