The Luna Choosing Game by Jane Above Story

Chapter 0263

Nicholas’s mouth was hot on mine. His arms wrapped around my waist, holding me closely. I clutched

at his shoulders, early accepting his kisses, until the need for air forced us apart.

He rested his forehead against mine. “You have to change.”

“Nick,” I said. He was being ridiculous. “This dress is not revealing.”

“You look so sexy in it. I can’t stand the thought of Terry seeing you like this.”

I smiled a little. This dress was not flattering on me. I knew that. I looked okay, but out of fashion. I’d

worn more revealing clothes before.

I imagined a big part of Nicholas’s trouble was that he was attracted to me in anything. “You’d probably

be jealous even if I wore a potato sack.”

He didn’t argue. “I don’t like the way Terry looks at you.” His arms squeezed me closer. “Why don’t you

stay here, after all. Stay with Elva. Julian and I can snoop around Terry’s mansion. You don’t need to

endanger yourself.”

I shook my head. “You know I can’t do that. Even if I wanted to. I had such a poor showing in the last

event, that I can’t risk botching another. I need attend and do the best I can.”

“Terry won’t make it easy on you.‘

“I know that,” I said. “But I don’t have any other choice.”

Nicholas frowned deeply but he made no further remarks. Instead, he stepped back from me and turned

on the lights to the garage. Taking my hand, he led me through the various fancy cars until we reached a

black sedan with tinted windows.

door and helped me inside. Then he went around to the driver’s side. The

were soft leather, the console black and impeccably clean.

with a confident

drive and carefully navigated out of the garage and

began to prickle again. I worried my hands together.

tense posture

else seemed to use this road this time of night. The sun had set, and the road was dark. Nicholas clicked on the high beams.

through the darkness, illuminating

the double yellow line, trying to collect my thoughts. Yes, I was a lamb headed into the

Nicholas and Julian would be there. And Susie and the other girls.

do so

all that better. Terry was bold. He didn’t seem like the type that would be

what others thought of him or his actions. He had the ear of

matter to him? Even the

reaching the mansion. I could tell from the

his knuckles white.

lined the road on either side of us. Nicholas lifted his foot off the

road, where a dirt road seemed to lead to nowhere. He put the car into park.

“Nicholas?”

to look at me and I saw a bit of desperation in his gaze. I knew

all the way down into the deepest parts

leaning toward

halfway.

need to hold each other overcame any obstacle. Nicholas buried his fingers into my

to tell

feel safe

to be strong, depend on my physical training

ready.

I was frightened.

Nicholas

He licked his way past the seam of my lips. I

with our lips pressed together and our hands holding each other closer, I could almost forget about what was going to happen tonight. I could find solace in this man, in his closeness, in his strength and his

at me tonight would not be about to surmount this stolen moment of closeness with this man I was so soft–hearted for. Nicholas and

and the pursuit