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 he

his silence for as long as I could

to

didn’t move, nor did not look away.

Did we?

standing very close just now,” Nicholas

that, Nicholas would want to know what we had been talking about. As far

I gave a

close during archery

noticed? I thought he had totally avoided so much as glancing at me during the

did you two become so close?” Nicholas

remembered me from the

I was

further into disfavor

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

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

“No, I, um… Julianer, Prince

matters to discuss.”

hoped he wouldn’t ask more. I would take my darkest secrets to the grave, but

one point, I would

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

machines, the threads,

my