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

out his silence for as long as I could manage

you want to talk?”

did not look away. “You

Did we?

very close just now,”

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

during

as glancing at me during the

you two become

he remembered me from

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

send me further into disfavor with

me. Why did he care who I spent time with? Unless he was worried I had turned my machinations on Julian since

were doing just now?” Nicholas’s eyes

nerves. “No, I, um… Julianer, Prince Julian

matters to discuss.”

grave, but if he kept

never been very good at denying Nicholas. At one point, I would have found

me and to the sewing machines I’d had the maids set

over the machines, the

my