The Luna Choosing Game

Chapter 0544

Eventually, though, we both gave in to our more mature impulses and separated so Nicholas could get dressed. He slipped on his shorts, and then held up the shirt that had been our blanket.

It was almost certainly ruined: wrinkled and covered in sand, with a few mystery wet spots here and there. He rolled it up into a tight ball and held it in his hand.

I lifted a brow at him.

*I think I'd only generate more questions by wearing this as it is," he said.

Yeah, he was probably right.

Back home, the two of us returning from somewhere with him being shirtless would have people wondering, but here, we were surrounded by beach and ocean. Sunbathing could be a perfectly logical explanation for his state of dress - or rather, undress.

No one should really think better of it.

now that she knew the truth of Nicholas's and my intimacy. But frankly, at this particular moment,

didn't want to bother thinking

a sigh. "Let's get going or I'll

least, I needed to

walked out of the alcove and around the beach. We went the opposite way from the deck where most likely everyone else had gathered. Near the

reached out and touching my

Selma appeared, with Charlotte behind her. Three more servants, larger men, walked around Charlotte: one at either side of her and then one behind. Update first at NôvelDráma.

I pulled my arm from Nicholas's hold - which wasn't overly difficult. He

to look at me, even as the other

out her arms, blocking my path. She was slighter than me, I could have likely

allies I had here, especially when I had no idea what the

moved to my side. He didn't touch me again, but he stood silently beside me in solidarity.