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

as long as I

want to

not look away. “You are Julian seem…

Did we?

standing very close just now,” Nicholas

how softly we were talking, but if I admitted that, Nicholas would want to know what

I gave a non–committal

close during archery

so much as glancing at me during the archery event. Even when I had been with his group, he

two become so close?” Nicholas

remembered me from

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

further into disfavor

seemed ridiculous. He already hated me. Why did he care who I spent time with? Unless he was worried I had turned my machinations on Julian since he himself had rejected

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

I, um… Julianer, Prince Julian and I

matters to discuss.”

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

denying Nicholas. At one point, I would have found

the sewing machines I’d had the

over the machines, the threads, and the swatches

my