The Luna Choosing Game by Jane Above Story

Chapter 0221

I tried to get into the moment, imagining Terry saying something like that to me. The softness in Julian’s

eyes kept me from falling to far into the fantasy.

I cleared my throat. “Don’t you find the trends of modern fashion tiresome? Not to mention wasteful. Why should I throw away a perfectly good dress simply because I have worn it once before.”

“A woman’s dress adds to her beauty. You wouldn’t put a rose inside a paper vase.”

“I wouldn’t pluck the rose at all.”

Julian’s mouth twitched upright. “Not even to show off its beauty. You’d keep it hidden away on some

bush in the corner of the garden?”

“Anyone who knows where the rose bush is, would know they could easily go see the beauty for

themselves. There’s no need to dress it up.”

Julian hummed.

I looked at him, surprised. “What? No good?”

“No, you did fine. The problem is we need to teach you to stop engaging with him at all.”

“How?”

back. “Oh, something like, ‘If you’ll excuse me, Sir, I must

I

wide. “He’d leave you alone for a minute, at least. Long enough for you to get

or

be alone with him,

I wanted to tease him more, to get him

actually like me.”

he stared at me deeply, as

of his mysterious past love, Bridget. I wondered if

I should. I wasn’t sure why it mattered to me.

his hand and cupped my cheek. It was a gentle

to stare

face burned with embarrassment and confusion, but I

was being surprisingly tender. He could be teasing me, or we could be playing still. But

know.

me see behind the curtain of him, for just a moment. He looked almost… sad.

Lost.

know what to do or say to show him the

down to my lips.

in, as if to kiss me.

flinching back. He couldn’t mean this. He was either teasing me or he wanted

wasn’t that

vulnerability in his eyes sealed away behind a door of

the room without one