The Luna Choosing Game

Chapter 0431

“Maybe we should try a different game,” Julian said. “Something easier.”

“Like what?” I asked.

“Go fish,” he said, and we both laughed. A game for children might have been more fitting, honestly. At least then, I might have stood a chance. I had no proof but I had a feeling, just knowing Julian, that he had been counting cards at poker.

As he started to deal for our competitive game of go fish, I said to him, “See

this is how it should be.”

He side–eyed me. “How do you mean?”

“Easy. Being with the person meant for you should be easy, just like this. Fun and silly. Full of more laughter than heartache.”

lian hummed as he set down the deck. I checked my cards. I had a truly

going to lose at go fish too as badly as poker. Julian would never

play cards?”

“I’m not sure.” He placed down two matching cards. He was already

unfair that he had no idea if

point I wanted to prove. The right person for him would try to

wished I could make him see, but the longer we spent together, the more

he’d harbored them so long, he had no idea how

continued to beat me at cards, I noticed Nicholas walk out into the garden. His gaze cast over the flowers and the fields before he spotted me and Julian at our small two

I had been making efforts to touch his

said. He plucked a card from the pile, then dropped three three’s. “He looks rather annoyed at our closeness.”

than I

us?”

had gotten to be such good friends. Maybe it was because, unlike me and my feelings for Nicholas, Julian had a chance to be free of his love and