The Luna Choosing Game

Chapter 0539

“They're pushing him past his limits,” Julian said again, “And it's about time too.” I looked at him sharply. Surely he couldn't be happy that his brother was being harassed into uncharacteristic outbursts.

He shrugged at my look. “He’s final ly acting like a living breathing human in front of the camera. Yeah, it's probably not the side he wants people to see, but even you have to admit, Piper, that it was unnerving as hell watching him pretend to be that i oh IE perfect emotionless statue.” I couldnt deny that exactly, but it wasn't great that Nicholas’s walls were crumbling without his consent.

He should be able to raise and lower his walls at his own will, not because

I others pushed him into it.

“If he wants to be the statue, he should be able to be the statue” I said.

Julian shook his head. “We know Nicholas would be a great king because we know him. He know how much he cares about everything, including the people. He's always at that orphanage, for instance. But you know who doesn’t know any of that, even about the orphanage?” “The people,” I said, realizing.

to do that, we were supposed to show pieces of ourselves to the public, so they could know our faces. We hid away from them for

is, they have no reason to believe he would be the best king.” Julian pointed at

could see the reason in that, and for Julian to believe it so strongly meant that he had given ita lot of thought. Julian might have given the outward appearance

knew more about this than me, I a, or

the public perception of

I stood.

the beach down to the group of trees,” Julian said. “It's in a bit of an alcove, hid away

that's where he would have gone.” It was sweet of Julian to give me this information. The knowing

at him, he waggled his

his direction and I wasn't going