The Luna Choosing Game by Jane Above Story

Chapter 0059

Quickly, I exited the car, Julian sighed, threw the car into park, and got out too.

“Over here, Piper,” Nicholas said, motioning to the space beside him. Obediently, I went where he

directed.

Softly, he asked me, “Are you alright?”

The question startled me a moment. I wasn’t sure why he cared. But I assuaged his concerns. “I’m not

hurt.”

Nicholas nodded at me, then rounded on Julian. His voice was thick with fury.

“How could you do something like this? You broke all the rules. Do you not care at all that you’ve potentially endangered Piper’s candidacy for the games?”

Julian rolled his eyes. “It was just a bit of fun, Nicholas.”

“At her expense. You have nothing to lose. She could be punished for your little act of rebellion.”

My y stomach twisted uncomfortably. I hadn’t thought of the consequences like this. I’d just followed

Julian. Was I truly at risk of being expelled?

“It’s not that big of a deal. I doubt anyone noticed.”

“Everyone noticed you zoom out of here first thing in the morning. They even caught your act on

camera.” He waved toward the front gate, where I remembered seeing the camera crew earlier.

Julian glanced from Nicholas to me, and then back again. His smile turned cat–like.

“Just a short while ago, Piper was telling me that you didn’t care about her anymore. Yet here you are,

coming to her rescue like a perfect knight in shining armor.”

Nicholas stiffened. “I don’t care.”

I lowered my head.

“Then why so serious, dear brother?” Julian asked.

be right for any candidate to be disqualified because of

Lilliana I had out here, you’d still

his head. “You

I knew I wasn’t special to Nicholas anymore, but to have him

no less each

again and again

it go, Julian,” I said.

unreadable. When had he begun to shield his true self so defensively? He hadn’t been

Piper gets into any trouble for

So you can

between Nicholas and me, Julian laughed again, like everything was a

approached us, Julian tossed him the keys to the car

the palace.

to the side of the driveway, and

I alone, I began to feel nervous. I rubbed

“Thank you,” I said.

He kept his gaze at something over my shoulder,

for any of the

The words cut me more than I should have allowed. I tried to hide my hurt reaction, but I wasn’t as trained

do was escape.

title again. Sometimes, with the way he acted, it

nor Nicholas had corrected me,

really hoped they

but I was waylaid by Lena, who walked directly

are. Finally. There won’t

do you

to speak with

hadn’t seen her since she was sleeping. Reasonable

health. Mornings were sometimes

rose high on her forehead. “You intend to keep your Queen

that, I supposed I didn’t have a

something was

corrected.

the grand glass double–doors that led out

flowers and bushes, I noticed she

tea

and a table. Even

the stables, Nicholas was meeting a girl. Was this another solo date? When had

arranged?

with me here? It felt like a trap somehow, though I

of my past relationship with her son.