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.

did not wait for my reply. “You can’t have both brothers! If you are after Julian, you should stick with him and leave Nicholas alone. It doesn’t even make sense

my hands now, palms forward in defense. “I’m not after any of the brothers.”

like anyone is supposed to believe that.” She crossed

“It’s true!”

rolled her eyes. “You are 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

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

deserved a partner. Not

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

him to be with someone he actually likes and

the time.”

a moment, then threw her head back and laughed. “Piper, you are so naïve! That

royalty works. What did you think he was going to marry for

was making fun of me but she didn’t have to be

even look sad about it. She had simply just accepted it

that should change, and not just for the

harder than before. “You want to save us all, huh? Oh, Piper. You need to just accept this is

accept that, and you

riot,” Lilliana said,

of an eye, she shifted from the haughty laughing princess to a wilting

look to know that Nicholas had approached

“I’ve never heard you laugh so… boisterously before, Liliana

her throat. “She can be quite funny when

to be.”

Nothing I had

walked to our table, a small smile on his lips. Yet one look 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 nobility to

include me in that statement, when everyone in the whole kingdom knew

was common.

desire to put me down seemed at war with her