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.

passenger door and helped me inside. Then he went

the console black and impeccably clean. When Nicholas turned

a confident purr.

drive and carefully navigated out of

my nerves began

over at me, likely seeing my tense posture and the way I couldn’t sit still.

no one else seemed to use this road this time of night. The sun had

sliced through the darkness, illuminating

my thoughts. Yes, I

be there. And Susie and the other girls.

he’d have to do so with a lot

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

of him or his actions. He

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

I could tell from the way Nicholas’s hands choked the

his knuckles white.

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

of the road, where a dirt road seemed to lead to

“Nicholas?”

desperation in his gaze. I knew what it was because I

all the way down into the deepest parts

he said, and I complied at once, leaning toward him. He leaned too, and caught

halfway.

unwelcomed into the space between us. But our need to hold each other overcame

able to tell where he ended and I began.

feel safe

find a way to 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

ready.

I was frightened.

held Nicholas tighter.

mouths found each other’s. He licked his way past the seam of my lips. I opened willingly for his greedy tongue,

what was going to happen tonight. I could find solace in

this man I was so soft–hearted for. Nicholas and I couldn’t

nothing mattered but he and I and the pursuit of the pleasure only attainable