The Luna Choosing Game

Chapter 0583

Chapter 0583

Julian immediately took another step backwards, adding more space between him and me. We both nervously glanced at Nicholas who mostly seemed confused by his own reaction. He cut off his growl with a sharp grunt.

"Sorry," he said.

"Don't worry," I replied.

"It's my fault," Julian said.

"No," Nicholas quickly corrected. "I don't know what came over me."

"I knew this game was a bad idea," Bridget says, rising from the couch. "I tried to warn everyone, but no one takes me seriously."

I distinctly remembered Bridget championing the idea for charades so much that she took to mostly organizing it herself. Now, suddenly, when something had gone wrong, she didn't want anything to do with the idea?

"We should definitely stop," Bridget continued, "I, for one, am out totally." She looked around at everyone, expecting them to agree.

Maybe she wasn't wrong in this instance. The joyful mood I had been attempting to cultivate seemed utterly at waste now, with only thick tension in the air.

Jessica worried her bottom lip. Veronica looked down at her lap. Julian apologized. Nicholas said, "I'm the one at fault."

Everything really did seem like it was falling apart.

Then Elva raised her head, looking up from her coloring books. She spotted the empty spot between Nicholas and Jessica on the couch.

"Can I be on Nick-lass's team?" she asked.

And just like that, the entire mood shifted. The tension broke and everything brightened. Jessica laughed. Veronica's lips twitched in an almost smile. Julian smiled outright. So did Nicholas.

"Of course you can," Nicholas said. He glanced at me. "If it's okay with your mom."

Elva turned her doe eyes on me. It would have been fine with me anyway, but having her look at me like that would have melted even my coldest moods.

told her, and she cheered.

on her hips. "This unbalances the teams."

now have four, compared to your team's three." "My team' she says," Julian scoffed. "Didn't you just tell everyone that you are quitting the game?" "Yes, but

take

had thought we were quitting

"Just sit this one out without making a fuss,

seeing my child and looking at her that way.

me.

she pushed me off that boat was the moment she forfeited any right to

empathy for a long time. It was past time that

Then she turned at stormed

the

she hopped to her feet and rushed to the bowl to pick out her word. I decided to stay with

now, I think, was rooting

dug out a slip of paper with a word and looked at it. Then she showed it to

concept more than a thing. It would be a trickier word to try to act out. But Elva seemed confident about what she

took her place in front of her team. I stood nearby, ready to assist her if

"Timer!" she called.

counted down from three, then said,

to me and hugged me. Tears welled in my eyes at once, but I blinked them back.

called. "Daughter?

with her noodle arms around my neck, then she let me go. Turning, she rushed across the room to Nicholas, where she threw her arms

seat, in time to catch Elva's hug. He wrapped his arms

"Family," Nicholas said.

shook her head

Nicholas considered.

slightly

to click within Nicholas. An understanding

"Home," he said.

My heart hammered in my chest. How had he

"You got

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