The Luna Choosing Game by Jane Above Story

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.

“You can’t have both brothers! If you are after Julian, you should stick with him and

lifted my hands now, palms forward in defense.

sure, like anyone is supposed to

“It’s true!”

constantly all over both of them. They won’t both pick you in the next elimination, Piper. Focus your efforts on Julian, who I shouldn’t need to remind you that you have been dating, and leave Nicholas

her so much as she was a threat

deserved a partner. Not

friends with Nicholas. That is all. But because I

be with someone he actually likes and not someone who just agrees with him

the time.”

head back and laughed. “Piper, you are so naïve! That

you think

of me but she didn’t have to be so blasé

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

just for the sake of the princes, but

Oh, Piper. You need to just accept this is how things are. This is how they’ve always been, and it’s how they always will be.”

refuse to accept that, and

a riot,” Lilliana said,

totally stifled herself. In the blink of an eye, she shifted from the haughty laughing princess

even need to look to know that Nicholas had

the joke,” Nicholas said. “I’ve never heard

her hand over her mouth and cleared her throat. “She

to be.”

had said

at me, and that smile dimmed into an expression of confusion. “I know it was probably a fool’s hope, but I always wanted more of the

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

was common.

to put me down seemed at war with her will to want to