The Luna Choosing Game

Chapter 0534

Julian frowned a little too, sitting down, but he quickly schooled his face and looked at me. He wanted to get down to business then. Trying to distract him by discussing the comfortability of the furniture was likely to fail.

*Bridget walked in on Nicholas and me last night," I said.

Julian's eyes sparkled with mischief. "And just what were you and my dear brother up to at that time?"

*Julian, be serious," I said, only barely containing my eye roll.

"That means you were doing exactly what I suspect," he said.

*Julian," I chided.

His mischievousness fell away. "I am serious now. I'm just trying to gauge what Bridget saw exactly, if there's any way to spin it to convince her it wasn't what she thinks it was."

"There's no way to spin this," I said. "Trust me."

Julian hummed thoughtfully. "Well, shit."

"Yeah."

threaten to expose

sure she would do that, for Nicholas's sake. But she said other stuff instead, like how disappointed she was."

"Bullshit," Julian said.

consideration of my feelings, I couldn't deny the subtle truth in those

isn't she?" I asked. "I wouldn't want my daughter to be secretly sneaking around with a man who will never marry

pulled together. "Who says he'll never

hope, so I gave Julian

he

Julian. Please. Just stop. We both know Bridget is right about this. Nicholas will never marry

Piper. He might

heart was ready to face. I didn't know if I could ever face that, not when the end

worse. "If he is to be king, he will need a woman

me, he seemed so earnest saying that. But I still couldn't allow myself to believe it. Besides, Julian was a good actor. He could say nearly anything and I'd believe