Chapter 0055

I stared at Julian, disbelieving my ears. Did he really just ask me for a solo date?

Yet everyone in the whole ballroom was looking at us. Julian still held the microphone up to his mouth.

This was definitely happening. It wasn’t a dream.

Which meant that Julian was up to something.

“Why?” I asked, before I could think better of it.

A few girls around me gasped. Only then did I realize my mistake and covered my mouth.

Julian also looked shocked, his eyes going wide for a moment. But then, just as quickly, he burst out

laughing.

His good humor seemed to erase the surprise of the other onlookers. Everyone seemed to think I had

been telling a joke.

With the microphone lowered, he said to me, “I insist this request is genuine, Piper.”

I didn’t believe him.

played the angles. Asking me on a date had to

begin to figure out how. I’d only scratched the surface of the inner

for my answer. Everyone

was using me, even if I didn’t know how, but I couldn’t exactly turn him down. He

this was a competition. I was just a pawn in

I said,

Into the microphone, he announced, “She said

Most of the girls clapped

he said, no longer speaking to me, but

Nicholas stood. His face was an emotionless mask, but his golden

stared straight

I

this didn’t mean anything. Julian

likely just for the

I couldn’t reach him without publicly dismissing

didn’t need an explanation anyway. We weren’t anything

anymore

something inside

screamed to soothe away

like that

that look had dimmed. Now he seemed entirely

He turned away from me and, even an hour later, had not sought

Julian and

not stop telling me how funny he

so mischievous, asking you

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