The Luna Choosing Game by Jane Above Story

Chapter 0264

“Didn’t Julian mention the pendant to you?” I asked.

“No,” Nicholas said curtly.

“He gave me this.” I lifted the pendant higher, for Nicholas to see. “He said that all I have to do is press

down on the moon, and my location would be sent to him. I asked him to include you in on it…”

“Conveniently he failed to mention it to me.” Jealousy dripped like venom from his voice.

“He must have forgotten.”

“Doubtful.” Nicholas accepted the pendant and examined it closely. He flipped it over to look at the back

of it. “I would have felt better if he had told me about this, but… I can’t deny it gives me some measure of

comfort to know you have it.”

“It does?”

Nicholas nodded. “I want you protected, even if I’m not the one doing it. Julian is many things but he is

not on Terry’s side. If he gave you this to protect you from him, that offer was genuine. As is the threat. If

even Julian is worried about you…”

Nicholas and Julian seemed to have skewed ideas of the other. I had seen Julian’s concern before, in albeit fleeting moments. But Julian was not so rambunctious and carefree as Nicholas assumed him to

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I doubted that defense of Julian would be welcome right at this moment, with Nicholas barely containing his envy, so I withheld it. Julian would probably prefer the misconception anyway, since he so

often sought to cultivate it.

“I will be speaking to Julian about this, however,” Nicholas said, his voice lowering with dark promise.

much trouble. Though, knowing him, he could handle himself just fine against his

arms again. For a few more blissful moments, I closed my eyes and enjoyed

so late that

regret.

even one more rank, so I leaned back

to the street. Then he moved the gear

we continued on.

at most. We were the last car to pull into the driveway, though several servants were still outside as if expecting us. When Nicholas stopped, one of the servants

much,” I said

did not engage me at all,

at once, though perhaps this particular gentleman took his position as a servant very seriously. I wouldn’t hold it against him. I simply stepped away and waited for Nicholas

the car.

out for me, and I

both. Both ignored me, eyes low, as if they had been instructed not to look at me. No, it wasn’t just me. They

from Nicholas as

at Nicholas in confusion.

“They say Terry treats his staff kindly and pays well. Neither of those things are true. His cruelty knows no bounds, and I suspect, though I have no

suspect blackmail.

would have done something about

“Everyone has turned a blind eye. I’ve broached the topic with my parents before, but they will not hear me. His

that notion. I wanted to save the servants here. But when I looked at them, their gazes were on the floor, their bodies still as statues. I doubted they would speak

to bring Terry down.

the base of a grand staircase. Gold

the room.

wall, under lights and

I dirty them with the bottom of my shoes.

room, with Terry standing in the center of the room. Servants, their downcast gazes in place, walked around the room carrying trays of

Nicholas and me closer. Nicholas holds tightly to

approach.

lips, and his eyes narrowed. “Why,

lipstick.”

a handkerchief from his pocket and passes it over to me.

at the corners