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.

opened the passenger door and helped me inside. Then he went around

soft leather, the console black and impeccably clean. When

a confident

into drive and carefully navigated out of the

the street, my nerves began to prickle again. I worried my hands

tense posture

no one else seemed to use this road this time of night. The sun had set, and the road was dark. Nicholas clicked

darkness, illuminating the

focused on the double yellow line, trying to collect my

den. But Nicholas and Julian would be there. And Susie and the other

me, he’d have to do so

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

actions. He had the ear of the Luna and the

of the lowly commoners matter to him? Even the nobles were

tell from the way Nicholas’s hands choked the

his knuckles white.

either side of us. Nicholas lifted his foot off the gas. Slowly, he pulled onto the

dirt road seemed to lead to nowhere. He put the car into

“Nicholas?”

and I saw a bit of desperation in his gaze. I knew

way down into

and I complied at once, leaning toward him. He

halfway.

each other overcame any obstacle. Nicholas buried his fingers into

able to tell where

feel

separate us tonight. I knew that to be true. Somehow, I would have to be strong, depend on my physical training from Nicholas, and my mental lessons from Julian. I didn’t

ready.

I was frightened.

held Nicholas

mine, and our mouths found each other’s. He licked his way past the seam of my lips.

with our lips pressed together and our hands holding each other closer, I could almost forget about what was going to happen tonight. I

to surmount this stolen moment of closeness with this man I was so

the pursuit of the pleasure only