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.

did he

his silence for as long

you want to

move, nor did not look

Did we?

were standing very close

talking, but if I admitted that, Nicholas would want to know what we had been talking about. As far as I was

gave a non–committal

close during archery practice,

had totally avoided so much as glancing at me during the archery event. Even when I had been with

did you two become so close?” Nicholas

remembered me from

smile, but it was uneasy. I felt like I was

send me further into

spent time with? Unless he was worried I had turned my machinations on Julian since he

doing just now?” Nicholas’s eyes narrowed,

growing nerves. “No, I, um…

matters to discuss.”

take my darkest secrets to the grave, but if he kept pushing, I was

Nicholas. At one point, I

slid away from me and to the sewing

over the machines, the

my