The Luna Choosing Game by Jane Above Story

Chapter 0217

I stood very still, confused and surprised both by the very presence of Julian’s lips on my cheek as well

as the tenderness of the affection he was showing me.

Julian had always struck me as something of a pl ayboy, and while I understood that much of how he

acted was an act, he never seemed to connect with any woman, in any relationship, beyond a fleeting fancy.

In our school days, he strung along many hearts, leaving a trail of broken ones behind him. He never

seemed to care about the mess he made of girls’ emotions.

Even Nicholas had warned me that Julian was a love them and leave them kind of guy.

So the gentle way he kissed my cheek, and the way his hands hovered over my shoulders, close but not

touching, was so bizarre to me, I was stunned speechless.

Then he pulled away, walked around me, and continued up the stairs. After a few steps, he stopped to

look back at me. “You coming?”

I nodded, still too surprised to formulate words, and hurried along behind him.

my door. He was smirking like always. His hands in

a familiar saunter to his walk.

smug, so I couldn’t correlate that with the strange

my observation, he was acting like the kiss hadn’t happened at all.

which seemed more

line with what

us both. When Mark

I imagined he was texting with Nicholas. Maybe he still wanted to

just to

Julian said. He barely gave me

we came from. “Goodnight,

was already walking away. He waved his hand up, but did not look

him until he was gone.

to Mark.

been checking on her every fifteen minutes,” Mark said. “She’s been sleeping soundly all night.”

“Thank you, Mark.”

entirely true, His job as Beta was to attend

said, desperate to give my

He lowered his head instead, but not before

Mark. Gentlemen.”

return, and