The Luna Choosing Game

Chapter 0444

Despite the argument between Bridget and Nicholas, the show needed to go on, which meant Nicholas and Bridget were called back to the stage. Bridget was silenced after Nicholas’s final words, so the air between them was obviously tense. They didn’t talk at all as they returned to the stage.

For the finale, Julian was needed on stage too. This was the final showdown between his character and Nicholas’s, where Nicholas would beat him in a duel and officially claim Bridget’s character’s hand in marriage.

I knew Julian had to go, but I was still holding onto his arm. I wasn’t ready to let him go yet. We still hadn’t talked and his face was still like that of a strangers, unsmiling and stern.

Julian glanced pointedly at where I gripped his upper arm.

“I have to go now, Piper,” he said.

“We still haven’t talked,” I replied.

“Later.”

I still didn’t let go. “Do you promise?”

He huffed a harsh breath. “Why does it matter?”

He was so dismissive, it hurt a little. Why did it matter? Because I cared about him. Because he was acting strangely. Because I wanted to know if he really said those terrible things about me to Bridget.

“It matters because it matters,” I said. It really was as simple as that. To put it into further detail only made it more needlessly complicated. It mattered because Julian mattered.

He looked at me a bit longer. His eyes were so detached, he truly looked like a different person. I missed the always smirking instigator that had become my friend.

“Piper…” he said, and it seemed like he was about to say something else. Maybe he’d give an explanation. Maybe he’d finally tell me what was going on.

Instead, he sighed. “I have to go.”,

I didn’t have any other choice. I couldn’t make him look bad and hold up the play for everyone else, just because I selfishly wanted answers from Julian. So I released his arm.

He nodded, then hurried up onto the stage to finish his scene.

I felt so cold inside. I didn’t want to believe the things Bridget said, but with Julian acting so distantly, what was I to think?

really did say those things about

rest of the play went by in a rush. I felt a bit like I was in a bit of a trance, woken only when, in the final scene,

along behind her as she lightly sk ipped across the stage. The crowd oohed and aahed, and she

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applause of the night.

This time, Bridget did not push for more. Good. If she had tried, I might have run- onto the stage myself and yanked her away

My wolf was angrily pacing within me. It couldn’t wait until we had Nicholas alone

together. The crowd cheered and cheered, a standing ovation. When Nicholas and Bridget came out last, they cheered loudest.

a bouquet of roses as he arrived onstage. “From the King and Queen,”

Favoritism, once again.

tried not to let it

and mingle with the crowd. Take

King requests an audience,”

Requests. More like demands.

Nicholas weaved through the crowd toward the

noticed Julian making his way out

summons. Even if I was dying, he’d still be required to speak with the King first, before he

I could

few polite hellos to guests who wished to greet me and give compliments to my performance, and then I made my way

his elbows on the railing of the

to his side and took a spot beside him on the railing. I looked at him for a long moment. When he didn’t turn to meet my gaze, I followed his up

to

the questions I had, that

he said, without any hesitation. “Was that your

And his answer only

to where he was last

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