The Luna Choosing Game by Jane Above Story

Chapter 0173

It wasn’t that I didn’t believe Mark when he had told me that Julian had left the palace and hadn’t been

seen since the morning, but I still had to snoop around some to be sure. I needed to talk to him so badly, t

couldn’t just sit around and wait for him to return.

I asked some of the servants and the more–friendly of the guards. But each person had the same story,

more or less. No one had seen Julian or his Beta Brian since the morning Julian and I had talk to Williams.

“It’s not unusual for him to disappear,” said one of the servants. “Prince Julian is a bit rebellious.

Sometimes he would leave the palace for days at a time only to return with no explanation. No one’s ever

really sure about that one.”

That didn’t make me feel at all better. He would disappear for a few days? Surely he would know this time about the elimination ceremony. He wouldn’t leave me high and dry while he was off doing

foolish, would

Julian’s flakiness was a façade he put on. He took plenty of

seriously.

Like our investigation.

myself that I was worried about him. Nicholas had been right about one thing: investigating the underground organization was

and I weren’t exactly friends, but I didn’t want to see

some random girl for a while, being irresponsible but

elimination. I could

give the candidates just a bit more time with the princes, that evening, a brief meetup was arranged in one of the sitting rooms. Since Julian was missing,

me. I didn’t want to speak to him either. The presence of his emotionless mask hurt though, just a tiny bit. It seemed like he was treating me just as he

to me

Fine Perfect.

tried to get closer to Nicholas but was shoved away

rate, we might as well see ourselves

knows

Prince Joyce?” asked

“Prince Joyce?”