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.

wouldn’t be right for any candidate to be disqualified because of

Lilliana I had

shook his head. “You

crackle in my chest. I knew I wasn’t

less each

again and again

let it go, Julian,”

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

Nicholas, if Piper gets

you can

laughed again, like

Brian approached us, Julian tossed him the keys

the palace.

driveway, and Brian

and I alone, I began to feel nervous. I rubbed

“Thank you,” I said.

kept his gaze at something over my shoulder, refusing

the same for any of the

I should have allowed. I tried to hide my hurt reaction, but I wasn’t as trained at concealing my emotions

I could do was escape. “If

addressed Julian without his title again. Sometimes, with the way he acted, it was so difficult to

corrected me, so maybe they hadn’t noticed…

really hoped

toward my room, but I was waylaid by Lena, who walked directly

you are. Finally. There won’t be an

you mean?”

to speak with

seen her since she was sleeping. Reasonable or not,

her health. Mornings

Lena’s brows rose high on her forehead.

she put it like that, I supposed I didn’t have a

something

I corrected. T’ll

the grand

weaved through the flowers and bushes, I noticed she

entourage had arranged a tea party in the flower field

chairs and

front of the stables, Nicholas was meeting a girl. Was

arranged?

me here? It

she wasn’t aware of my past relationship with her son. She never brought it up before,