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.

can," I told her, and

minute," Bridget said. She placed her hands on her

narrowed her eyes. "With Elva on my team, we now have four, compared to your team's three." "My team' she

to take your place," Nicholas

had thought we were quitting the game," Bridget

child," Julian told her. "Just sit this one out without making

Elva. I sidestepped into her line of sight, blocking her from seeing my child and looking at her that way. Elva was innocent in all this. If Bridget wanted to be mad

me.

off that boat was the moment she forfeited any right to my feelings. I should have stopped caring what she thought long ago. When she left me in

has been showing me her lack of empathy for a long time. It was

she turned at stormed off towards

was gone, the fun began once

out her word. I decided to stay with her, while Julian returned to his seat beside Veronica. Neither

now, I think, was rooting for

slip of paper with a word and looked at it. Then she

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

in front of her team. I stood

"Timer!" she called.

from three, then said,

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

Jessica called.

she let me go. Turning, she rushed across the room to Nicholas, where she

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

"Family," Nicholas said.

her

Nicholas considered.

slightly taken

click within Nicholas.

"Home," he said.

said. My heart hammered in my chest. How

leaned back. "You got it,

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