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

silence for as long as I

to talk?” I

look away.

Did we?

close just

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

gave

close during archery

the archery event. Even when I had

become so close?”

remembered me from the Royal

like I was

me further into disfavor with

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

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

down my growing nerves. “No, I, um…

matters to discuss.”

secrets to the grave, but if he

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

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

machines, the threads, and the swatches

my