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

for as long as I could manage before I

want to talk?” I

look away. “You are Julian

Did we?

standing very close just

would want to know what

I gave a

were close during archery practice, as

I thought he had totally avoided so much as glancing at me during the archery event. Even when I had been with his

did you two become

remembered me from the Royal

like I was walking along a dagger’s edge,

further into

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

now?” Nicholas’s eyes narrowed, his focus intensifying.

nerves. “No, I, um… Julianer, Prince Julian and

matters to discuss.”

to the grave, but if he kept pushing, I was

point, I

gaze slid away from me and to the sewing machines

the machines, the threads,

my