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 he

as long as I could

to talk?”

look

Did we?

were standing very close just

would want to know what we had been talking about. As far as I was concerned, Nicholas could never, ever know

I gave a

were close during archery practice, as

at me during the archery event. Even when I had been with

become so close?” Nicholas

me

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

me further into disfavor with

me. Why did he care who I spent time with? Unless he was worried I had

doing just now?” Nicholas’s eyes narrowed, his focus

swallowed down my growing nerves. “No, I, um… Julianer, Prince Julian and

matters to discuss.”

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

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

machines, the threads, and the swatches

my