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

his silence for as long as I could manage before I finally

to talk?” I

did not look away.

Did we?

very close

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

I gave

during

the archery event. Even when I had been with his group, he

did you two become so close?”

he remembered me from

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

me further

he care who I spent time with? Unless he was worried I had turned my machinations

that what you were doing just now?” Nicholas’s eyes

nerves. “No, I, um…

matters to discuss.”

grave, but if he kept pushing, I was so nervous, I would

very good at denying Nicholas. At one point, I would have found a way to give him the

to the sewing

over the machines, the threads,

my