The Luna Choosing Game by Jane Above Story

Chapter 0266

Where could I hide? Behind the desk? But wouldn’t that be the first place someone would go to if they came to this room? There weren’t many other spots to hide. A couple of high–back chairs were dotted around, but they wouldn’t provide much cover.

“Piper?”

My thoughts came to a screeching halt.

That was Nicholas’s voice.

I rushed back to the door. “Nicholas?”

“Oh, thank God,” came Nicholas’s voice, muffled with the barrier between us.

“How did you know I was in here?”

“I was snooping around. When I didn’t see you with the tour group, I came looking for you.”

“Did they move on without me?” I asked. If they had, Terry likely immediately noticed my absence.

“The servants were taking them back, from what I could tell,” Nicholas said. “Terry wasn’t

with them.”

A pit opened in my stomach. Did that mean he was looking for me too?

“I want to get out of here,” I said, fear apparent in my voice, even to me.

“Step back, Piper.‘

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“What are you going to do?”

“I’m going to get you out of there.”

I rushed away at once, moving behind

“Three…” Nicholas said.

“Two…”

the hell do you think

there. I’m getting

snooped through the room. Stop. Just stop. Let

jingled in the lock.

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the door

the lock like a civilized person,” Julian said back. “Just one moment…‘

The lock clicked.

pride. “There we

“Whatever,” Nicholas grumbled.

knob turned and the door pushed open. Suddenly,

up and down, his face

Piper. The

was palpable. I had been even more scared than I had

found

Julian held me back, even longer than they needed to. For a long, special moment we stood together, united in

first. In his absence, Nicholas wrapped both

should get going,” I

looks like my uncle’s office,” Julian said, looking around.

anything in

a finger. “But did you look in

I stepped away from each

searched the drawers,” I said. “Everything seemed

Julian opened the drawer with the paper weight. He pressed his hand up along the underside of the drawer above it. There was a popping sound, and then a

Of course someone like Terry

the other drawers,” Julian said. In the secret compartment he opened was a signet

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