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.

arm. “The timing is what concerns me. He locked you out there the same night Nicholas was almost taken. It felt wrong to me, even then I

an unhappy question. I felt guilty even thinking it, so I whispered it to Julian rather than saying it too loudly,

me. There was a hard edge to his gaze. “You should

suspect him, then?”

he sounded so

to that.

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

in the dining room making the noise. Instead, it was two different camera crews trying to capture every angle of Nicholas

but it made Nicholas dip into his

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

1. e. that you

every eye in th

at me.

hallway turned to look at Julian instead, and then,

to hide,

on my arm was fierce, like

me straight you?

Olivia. Both

crowd until we were standing directly

faces of

y heart ache