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

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

to talk?”

look away. “You are

Did we?

standing very close just

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

I gave a non–committal

were close during archery practice,

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

did you two become so

remembered me

but it was uneasy. I felt like I

further into disfavor with

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

now?” Nicholas’s eyes

um… Julianer, Prince Julian and I

matters to discuss.”

I would take my darkest secrets to the grave, but if he kept

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

Nicholas’s gaze slid away from me and to the sewing machines I’d had the maids

He looked over the machines, the

my