The Luna Choosing Game by Jane Above Story

Chapter 0224

We made it five steps out into the hallway before Nicholas started asking questions.

“Did something happen?” he asked.

I didn’t want to lie to him, so I shrugged. “Nothing big.”

“Nothing big is still something.

With my hand on his arm, Nicholas dictated how fast and slow we walked. He slowed now, making it

clear he would stretch this out if he needed to. He was worried about me, I could see from the look in his

eye. He wasn’t going to let me off the hook easily.

Softer, he asked, “Did Julian do something?”

“No,” I said. Julian had stopped himself before he could. That was assuming that leaning in for a kiss

had been what he was actually doing, and not just teasing me. “I don’t know. It was confusing.”

“Tell me.”

I wanted to. I needed to talk to someone about what happened, and who knew Julian better than.

Nicholas? But I was unsure. With their rivalry, and Nicholas’s jealousy, if he knew that Julian had tried to

me, how would he react?

likely receive no answer that would actually help

it vague. “Julian’s been acting strange

I’m starting to wonder if he actually feels some

voice lowered, Bitterness clipped his words.

woman’s heart. Especially yours.”

heart.” Recognizing Nicholas’s jealousy, I gently corrected him. While

to kissing,

my

doesn’t yet.” Nicholas sighed. “But please be

my eye and thought of the mysterious Bridget

Did Nicholas truly steal her away from Julian?

time from before even Nicholas and I were

to his brother’s feelings? Julian had made it

could, I still couldn’t imagine Nicholas that way. Perhaps there had been a misunderstanding. Julian might have misread the entire thing. It just didn’t

around my waist. He kept it there, gradually tugging me closer and closer to his side all the way to

candidates

were barren by now, the candidates in their rooms and the servants done for

halfway up the stairwell, before we reached the

or they

around my waist and turned me toward him. I easily

–

was the jealousy I