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 could manage

to talk?”

nor did not look away. “You are

Did we?

were standing very close

know what we had been

gave a non–committal

were close during archery practice,

at me during the archery event. Even when I had been with his group,

did you two become so close?”

me from the Royal

I felt like I was walking along a dagger’s edge,

send me further into

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

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

nerves. “No, I, um… Julianer, Prince

matters to discuss.”

grave, but if he kept pushing, I was

one point, I would have found a way to give him the

Nicholas’s gaze slid away from me and to the

machines, the threads, and the swatches

my