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

you want to talk?”

look away.

Did we?

very close just

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

I gave

were close during archery

had noticed? I thought he had totally avoided so much as glancing at me during the archery event. Even when I had been with his group, he hadn’t

you two become so close?”

he remembered me from the Royal

uneasy. I felt like I was walking along a

send me further into disfavor with

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

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

um…

matters to discuss.”

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

one point, I would have found a way to

the sewing machines I’d

the machines, the threads, and the

my