The Luna Choosing Game by Jane Above Story

Chapter 0033

I’ll leave you two to chat, Julian said, tapping Nicholas on the shoulder.

Side by side Julian and Nicholas were of comparable height, with Nicholas an inch or two taller. They

looked similar too, though Julian’s features were somewhat softer than the hard angles of Nicholas’s

face.

Nicholas wasn’t saying anything. His expressionless gaze shifted from me to Julian and back again.

Julian laughed on his way out the door and well down the hallway. I could hear echoes of it long after he

was gone

I thought Nicholas might leave too. Had he only come to look for Julian? Despite Julian’s teasing, it seemed impossible that he would have been searching for me.

Yet when Julian left, Nicholas stayed in my doorway, fixed and unmoving like a statue.

Under his unwavering stare, I began to get nervous. Did he overhear something that Julian and I had

talked about? No, we’d been speaking softly. Even from the door, he wouldn’t have been able to hear.

what did

out his silence for as long as I could manage

to

didn’t move, nor did not look away.

Did we?

very close just now,”

had to, with how softly we were talking, but if I admitted that, Nicholas would want to know what we had been talking about. As

I gave a

close during archery practice,

had totally avoided so much as glancing at me during the archery event. Even when I had been with his group, he hadn’t said

two become

remembered me from the

it was uneasy. I felt like I was walking along a dagger’s edge, and one wrong

further

I spent time with? Unless he was worried I had

now?” Nicholas’s eyes narrowed, his

I, um… Julianer, Prince Julian and I had some

matters to discuss.”

I would take my darkest secrets to the grave,

denying Nicholas. At one point, I would have

Nicholas’s gaze slid away from me and to the sewing machines I’d had the maids set up

the machines, the threads, and the swatches

my