The Luna Choosing Game by Jane Above Story

Chapter 167

Chapter 0167

I followed Lilliana further into the gardens to a small rod–iron table with two chairs. Lilliana motioned for

me to sit and then sat in the opposite chair.

“I’m glad we could finally have a chance to talk like this,” Lilliana said. She rested both hands on top of

the table.

I’mirrored her for a moment, but it felt unnatural having my hands lifted so high. I lowered them into my

lap instead.

“What was it you wanted to

talk to

me about?” Nervousness prickled at my skin. While it wasn’t unusual for the candidates to talk to each other, this still felt like a special event. Lilliana had called me out in front of Nicholas himself. She very nearly broke character to do it.

She gave me a sour kind of look. The way a disappointed principal would make to a rowdy student in. their charge. “Prince Nicholas. I want to ask you to please leave him alone. You are a distraction to him.”

we are friends.”

“I’m not doing anything to bother him, or at least, not trying to. But we

Nicholas had come to my rescue more than once now. And somehow when I needed things or support, Nicholas was always around to help. But that’s what friends did.

Lilliana narrowed her eyes. It was unusual for her to show any emotion. Tiny alarm bells started sounding in my head.

“What is your problem, Piper?” she snapped, voice suddenly much sharper than it had been before. Her narrowed gaze had become a fully blown glare.

I was shocked silent for a moment. I opened and closed my mouth like a fish.

If you are after Julian, you should stick with him and leave Nicholas

now, palms forward in defense. “I’m not after

is supposed to believe that.” She crossed her

“It’s true!”

elimination, Piper. Focus your efforts on Julian, who I

much was clear. What she failed to understand was that I wasn’t a threat to her so much as she was a threat to herself. Nicholas might say now

partner.

chin. “I am friends with Nicholas. That is all. But because I am friends

actually likes and not someone who just agrees with him

the time.”

then threw her head back and

did you think he was

she didn’t have

marries for love.” She didn’t even look sad about it. She had simply

should change, and not just for the sake of the princes,

just accept

accept that, and you should too.”

a riot,” Lilliana said, chuckling

totally stifled herself. In the blink of an eye, she shifted

need to look to know that Nicholas had approached us from behind

“I’ve never heard you

placed her hand over her mouth and cleared her throat. “She can be quite funny

to be.”

I had said was a joke.

that smile dimmed into an expression of confusion. “I know it was probably a fool’s

was kind, to include me in that statement, when everyone in the whole kingdom

was common.

put me down seemed at war with her will to want

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