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.

a date had to be some kind of move for his benefit,

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

for my

me, even if I didn’t know how, but

was just a pawn in

I said, “I

the microphone, he announced, “She said

cheered. Most of the girls clapped politely. A

he said, no longer speaking to me, but to the

stood. His face was

as he stared straight

I

him that this didn’t mean anything. Julian

again, likely just for

dismissing

I realized that Nicholas didn’t need an explanation

anymore

had triggered something inside

screamed to soothe away his

meant nothing like

now, that look had dimmed. Now he seemed entirely blank

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

Julian and his antics. Even after he

they could not stop telling

mischievous, asking you on a

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